Gerry L. Spence, Author . Scribner $27 (416p) ISBN 978-0-7432-0276-3
Most celebrated for representing Karen Silkwood, trial lawyer Spence has turned to dispensing folksy punditry on Rivera Live and writing nonfiction (How to Argue and Win Every Time). This is his first novel, and it's both a masterful courtroom...
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Gerry L. Spence, Author . St. Martin's $19.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-312-28444-2
The advice in this short book—which expands on Give Me Liberty—from noted attorney Spence (How to Argue and Win Every Time) sometimes sounds more simplistic than simple. "Slavery in any form begins and ends with the self," he...
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Gerry L. Spence, Author . Scribner/ Lisa Drew $28 (448p) ISBN 978-0-7432-4696-5
A nationally renowned trial attorney and author, Spence (Trial by Fire; Gunning for Justice) introduces his latest book with a cautionary pronouncement: this could happen to you. What follows is an electrifying and sensational true story of an...
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Gerry L. Spence, Author . St. Martin's $24.95 (287p) ISBN 978-0-312-33881-7
Spence's cowboy Uncle Slim once said, "You can't get nowhere with a thousand-dollar saddle on a ten-dollar horse." Noted trial lawyer Spence ( How to Argue and Win Every Time
) applies this principle to anyone making a case, whether...
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Gerry L. Spence, Author St Martin's Press $22.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-11827-3
Spense, a nationally known trial lawyer who has never lost a case, defended Karen Silkwood and Philippine First Lady Imelda Marcos as well as hardened criminals and ``little guys'' victimized by impersonal institutions. How does he do it? This...
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Gerry L. Spence, Author St. Martin's Press $16.99 (307p) ISBN 978-0-312-14477-7
Lawyer Spence's guide to winning arguments spent 26 weeks on PW's bestseller list. (June)
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Gerry L. Spence, Author St. Martin's Press $24.95 (366p) ISBN 978-0-312-19267-9
Lawyer, writer and television pundit Spence starts his scathing critique of American society with Goethe's famous statement, ""No one is as hopelessly enslaved as the person who thinks he is free."" This is a wide-ranging polemic but at its heart it
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Gerry L. Spence, Author William Morrow & Company $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-06075-6
Kim Pring of Cheyenne, a national baton-twirling champion, was a contestant in the 1979 Miss America pageant. Shortly thereafter, a story appeared in Penthouse magazine about a fictional baton-twirling Miss Wyoming who excelled at fellatio. Pring...
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Gerry L. Spence, Author Crown Publishers $19.95 (370p) ISBN 978-0-8129-1696-6
Passionately eloquent and innovative, trial attorney Spense ( Gunning for Justice , etc.) here argues the evils of the justice system itself and its abuse by monied interests such as corporations, ``the most cruel, calculating, and accomplished...
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Gerry L. Spence, Author St. Martin's Press $17.95 (171p) ISBN 978-0-312-09467-6
Noted Wyoming trial lawyer Spence ( Gunning for Justice ) is a veteran rhetorician, but this ``collection for free-floating thoughts about freedom'' lacks organization and offers only scattered sustenance. He muses about governmental abuses of power
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Gerry L. Spence, Author St. Martin's Press $26.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-14673-3
Spence (How to Argue and Win Every Time) has composed a formidable autobiography, a striking evocation of the closing of the frontier in the Wyoming of the 1930s and '40s. It's also a penetrating look into the heart of a youth torn between the lure...
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Gerry L. Spence, Author St. Martin's Press $22.95 (274p) ISBN 978-0-312-18009-6
O.J. Simpson is guilty of two bloody, brutal and cruel murders, according to noted defense lawyer and judicial gadfly Spence (How to Argue and Win Every Time). Nevertheless, Spence also believes that the jury in Simpson's criminal trial reached the...
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