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William M. Kunstler: The Most Hated Lawyer in America.(Review) (book review)

By Mello, Michael
Publication: Trial
Date: Friday, September 1 2000

William M. Kunstler: The Most Hated Lawyer in America David J. Langum New York University Press Washington Square New York, NY 10003 462pp., $34.95

Reviewed by Michael Mello

Legal cases are stories. The best litigators know this. Lives are stories, too. The best biographers know this. In this splendid book--William M. Kunstler: The Most Hated Lawyer in America--first-rate biographer David Langum, a professor at Cumberland School of Law, Samford University, in Birmingham, Alabama, tells the story of one of the most fascinating, complicated, and--in my view--h

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