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Gideon's Trumpet: How One Man, a Poor Prisoner, Took His Case to the Supreme Court-and Changed the Law of the United States by Anthony Lewis Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 1989 ISBN-10: 0-679-72312-9 / 0679723129 ISBN-13: 978-0-679-72312-7 / 9780679723127 The story of an "obscure Florida convict named Clarence Gideon had not sat down in his prison cell to write a letter to the Supreme Court, the vast machinery of American law would have gone on functioning undistrubed. His letter and his cased changed the course of American legal history. : Robert F. |