he biography of an extraordinary personality and giant in her field, a middle class child prodigy who abandoned the concert piano to become a zealous advocate for society’s most scorned and vilified defendants, from the Rosenberg espionage case in the early ‘50s to militant black clients, Black Panther leader Huey Newton and revolutionary prisoner George Jackson, in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s. This biography covers her amazing legal successes in a hostile environment, her pioneering work for prison reform, her bitter falling out with both infamous radicals whom she molded in Movement icons.
