Climbing Jacob's Ladder: A Trial Lawyer's Journey on Behalf of 'The Least of These'
Jacob Smith, a prominent black lawyer and political and civil rights leader in New York in the segregated 1950s, was assassinated when his son, Jock, was eight years old. If this memoir told only of a child's loving remembrance of his father (and a desire to follow in his footsteps, thus Climbing Jacob's Ladder), it would be a success. But Jock Smith grew up to become a lawyer himself, a college professor, one of the first African American assistant attorneys general in Alabama, and then a highly successful plaintiff's lawyer, sports agent, sports memorabilia collector, and inspirational speaker. Now a national partner to superlawyer Johnnie…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Cochran, Johnnie L. (Solist) / Hemphill, Paul (Gespielt)
- ISBN: 978-1-58838-078-4
- EAN: 9781588380784
- Produktnummer: 39602101
- Verlag: Newsouth Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
- Seitenangabe: 304 S.
- Masse: H23.3 cm x B16.3 cm x D2.6 cm 576 g
- Gewicht: 576
Über den Autor
Jock Smith lives in Montgomery and practices with a national law firm with offices in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Memphis, Atlanta, Washington, and Tuskegee and Dothan, Alabama. Paul Hemphill is a veteran journalist and Ford Freedom Award-winning author of a dozen books of fiction and non-fiction, including Long Gone, Leaving Birmingham, and The Nashville Sound. He is a native of Birmingham, and a graduate of Auburn University, was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, and now lives in Atlanta.
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