Gerry Spence: 13 books
by Gerry Spence
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Gerry Spence, that enduring, iconic figure in his fringed suede jacket, has been a successful, charismatic and passionate champion of justice in America’s legal system for decades. Now, he offers us the chance to take a walk through the nine decades of his extraordinary life in these collected poems.
Those...
The Smoking Gun
Day by Day Through a Shocking Murder Trial with Gerry Spence
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2003
From America's foremost criminal defense lawyer and author of the bestselling How to Argue and Win Every Time comes this riveting, true account of a trial that adeptly exposes the unrelenting power of the state, which so often crushes those -- guilty or innocent -- who come before the bar of justice....
Police State
How America's Cops Get Away with Murder
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
How does America, founded on the promise of freedom for all, find itself poised to become a police state?
In Police State, legendary "country lawyer" Gerry Spence reveals the unnerving truth of our criminal justice system. In his more than sixty years in the courtroom, Spence has...
Win Your Case
How to Present, Persuade, and Prevail--Every Place, Every Time
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Gerry Spence is perhaps America's most renowned and successful trial lawyer, a man known for his deep convictions and his powerful courtroom presentations when he argues on behalf of ordinary people. Frequently pitted against teams of lawyers thrown against him by major corporate or government interests,...
The Lost Frontier
Images and Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
A visual autobiography and portfolio of one of the West’s famous trial attorneys.
The Lost Frontier features a generous and dazzling collection of the author’s own paintings and photographs, vividly embellishing his story of growing up in the Depression and his evolution as an attorney...
Court of Lies
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019
From Gerry Spence, one of America’s greatest trial attorneys and the New York Times bestselling author of How to Argue and Win Every Time, comes an explosive courtroom thriller of murder, passion, and the twists and treachery of law and justice.
Lillian Adams is going on trial for the murder...
by Gerry Spence
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2018
The collected sayings of Gerry Spence prods readers into thinking about their own vision of the world. As a lawyer with decades of experience in defending the defenseless, he's fought against giants. His insights provide a grander vision of how the nearly invisible world of the justice system.
What...
A Boy's Summer
Fathers and Sons Together
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Gerry Spence, father to six, grandfather to ten, is a man who knows intimately the joys of fatherhood and who writes beautifully and lyrically about how fatherhood allows a man to rediscover the boy within himself, while simultaneously assuming true adult responsibility for the first time. This is...
Bloodthirsty Bitches and Pious Pimps of Power
The Rise and Risks of the New Conservative Hate Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2007
Ann Coulter. Laura Ingraham. Nancy Grace. Bill O'Reilly. Sean Hannity. Pat Robertson.
Their faces and voices are ubiquitous: the shrill shrieks and strident bellowings that drown out all debate and set every listener on edge, using God's and Jesus's names to justify oppression and ignorance, and spread...
Seven Simple Steps to Personal Freedom
An Owner's Manual for Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2002
Beloved author of, among many other books, the bestsellers How to Argue and Win Every Time and The Making of a Country Lawyer, Gerry Spence distills a lifetime of wisdom and observation about how we live, and how we ought to live in Seven Simple Steps to Personal Freedom. Here, in seven chapters,...
Give Me Liberty
Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 1999
Here, in this landmark personal work, Gerry demonstrates how, despite the democratic rhetoric we hear and believe, we have become enslaved. All of us are trapped by a complex web of corporate and governmental behemoths he calls the "New Slave Master" that today controls our airways, educates...
by Gerry Spence
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2019
The search for justice for a Lakota Sioux man wrongfully charged with murder, told here for the first time by his trial lawyer, Gerry Spence.
This is the untold story of Collins Catch the Bear, a Lakota Sioux, who was wrongfully charged with the murder of a white man in 1982 at Russell Means’s...
The Courage to Change
Personal Conversations about Alcoholism
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 1984
The classic New York Times bestseller: Real-life stories from prominent people talking about their experiences as alcoholics.
As an alcoholic himself, PBS host Dennis Wholey set out to collect the powerful stories of well-known people who have struggled with this disease. Included in this volume...