The Unexamined Side of Edward Bennett Williams

Meet the new Darrow, ‘after whose health, the prosecutor said, ‘all criminals solicitously inquire before setting out on the evening’s business’

For twenty years [Adam Clayton] Powell [Jr.] has been one of the most controversial and newsworthy figures in public life in New York City . . . His eloquent articulation of his convictions on racial equality and his personal dynamism have won him hordes of idolators and hordes of detractors.