Courtroom Warrior: The Combative Career of William Travers Jerome Hardcover 1963

COURTROOM WARRIOR is the story of William Travers Jerome, a man who was the first fighting D. A.'s to set New York on its corrupt ear, one of the most brilliant courtroom tacticians of his time. In 1900 when Jerome was elected district attorney, New York was a seamy capital of Edwardian villainy. A magnificently debased Police Department presided from Tammany Hall to the Tenderloin where, whatever its nostalgic connotation today, innocent girls were snatched from streets for brothel servitude. Scattering gamblers, madams, crooked cops & politicians like quail, Jerome drove vice into hiding & cleaned up the Tenderloin. Both Jerome's father & uncle were high livers and financial plungers. There could have been little expectation that William could grow up to become the epitome of the political crusader, the D. A. par excellence & scourge of his father's cronies such as Dick Canfield, owner of New York's lushest gambling emporium, which Jerome raided. In June of 1906, during Jerome's second term as D. A., Stanford White was murdered on the roof of Madison Square Garden by Harry Thaw over the former's alleged seduction of his bride, Evelyn Nesbit. Seen from the prosecutor's table w social background brilliantly limned in, this famous crime takes on new dimension as we follow Jerome's prosecution.  Excellent Pre-Owned Vintage Condition  Smoke Free Home  New to Poshmark? If you don’t have an account yet, use code REGGIE88188 when you sign up to receive $10 off your first purchase