The Trials and Tribulations of Dudley Field Malone

Eric B. Easton (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

252 Seiten

2025 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-0364-5667-2 (ISBN)

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Dudley Field Malone was one of the most interesting personalities of the 20th Century. Orator, lawyer, politician, activist and actor, Malone's legal career included his defense of John Thomas Scopes of "Monkey Trial" fame and Alice Paul and the suffragists who picketed the White House. He also represented sports figures like Gertrude Ederle and Gene Tunney, hobnobbed with celebrities like Charlie Chaplin, appeared regularly in Ed Sullivan's and Hedda Hopper's gossip columns, and portrayed Winston Churchill in three Hollywood movies. In 2024, the Broadway musical Suffs commemorated his break with President Wilson over woman suffrage. But Malone's life also included a Paris divorce mill scandal, three marriages and divorces of his own; financial profligacy, unpaid bills, tax liens and bankruptcy. Malone died in 1950, leaving no assets except a claim for $114.34 in salary owed him. Legal scholars and American historians will be fascinated by this charismatic, and tragic, figure.

Eric B. Easton is Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Baltimore School of Law, USA. He is the author of Lawyers of the Old Left, The Life and Crimes of Jared Flagg, New York Times v. Sullivan: A Documentary Supplement, Defending The Masses: A Progressive Lawyer's Battles for Free Speech, Mobilizing the Press: Defending the First Amendment in the Supreme Court, and more than 25 scholarly articles with some 10,000 downloads. He is currently the co-author of a treatise on The Law of Advertising and was founding editor of the Journal of Media Law & Ethics. Professor Easton holds a BS from the Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University, USA, a JD from the Francis King Carey School of Law, University of Maryland, USA, and a PhD from the Philip Merrill College of Journalism, University of Maryland, USA. He has taught and lectured on comparative media law in China, Scotland, the Netherlands Antilles, and Kosovo.

Erscheinungsdatum	04.11.2025
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-0364-5667-6 / 1036456676
ISBN-13	978-1-0364-5667-2 / 9781036456672
Zustand	Neuware