《MOUTHPIECE: A LIFE IN THE LAW(ISBN=9780767916547) 英文原版》是2010年Random House US出版的圖書，作者:Edward Hayes。
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- 書名：MOUTHPIECE: A LIFE IN THE LAW(ISBN=9780767916547) 英文原版
- 作者：Edward Hayes
- 出版社：Random House US
- ISBN：9780767916547
內容簡介,作者簡介,
內容簡介
From prosecuting (and defending) murderers in the Bronx tohandling the public and private problems of Manhattan’s elite,Mouthpiece recounts the colorful adventures of New YorkCity’s ultimate legal operator.“In the pages before us, the Counselor tells a saga’s worth oftales of the city. As the saying goes, he’s got a million ofthem.” —Tom Wolfe, from his Introduction
Edward Hayes is that unusual combination: the likable lawyer, onewho could have stepped off the stages of Guys and Dolls orChicago. Mouthpiece is his story—an irreverent,entertaining, and revealing look at the practice of law in moderntimes and a social and political anatomy of New York City. Itrecounts Hayes’s childhood in the tough Irish sections of Queensand his eventual escape to the University of Virginia and then toColumbia Law School. Not at all white-shoe-firm material, Hayesheaded to the hair-raising, crime-ridden South Bronx of themidseventies—first as a homicide prosecutor and then as a defenseattorney seeking to free the same sort of people he formerly hadput in jail.
Tom Wolfe immortalized this setting in The Bonfire of theVanities. Ed Hayes was his guide, and he served as the modelfor the scrappy defense lawyer Tommy Killian. Eventually, Hayesmoved his practice to Manhattan, using his neighborhood white boyinstincts and connections and the rough-and-tumble techniqueslearned in the Bronx on behalf of the rich and powerful and famous.From a high-stakes legal shootout over the Andy Warhol estate toworking to secure financial justice for the families of the WorldTrade Center victims, Hayes has been behind the scenes of how NewYork City really operates.
For the tens of millions fascinated by New York’s unique blend ofglitter and grime, of idealism and corruption, of avarice andambition, Mouthpiece provides the ultimate close-up ofhigh-stakes Gotham gamesmanship.
作者簡介
Edward Hayes now practices law in Manhattan for a wide variety of influential and/or notorious clients. He co-anchors Both Sides for Court TV and broadcasts once a week on WABC Talk Radio. He is an inductee into the International Best Dressed Hall of Fame.
Susan Lehman, a former criminal defense lawyer, was senior editor at Riverhead Books, Talk magazine, and Salon.com. She has written about the law, crime and other topics for the New York Observer, the Washington Post, and other publications.
Tom Wolfe is the famed author of The Bonfire of the Vanities, The Right Stuff, and, most recently, I Am Charlotte Simmons.
