This is the story of twin brothers, half Arapaho, half white set in a small Wyoming town.
Here Spence shows us 110 elegant black and white photos of rarely seen Wyoming, his native state along with forty poems and a CD with Spence reading his poetry. The photographs are on a large coffee-table format done in duotone. The book is a breathtaking account of Spence's magical eye as a photographer and his poetry the music of a searching soul in love with his place and his people of Wyoming.
This book is for boys and their fathers, fathers who want again to be boys and boys who want to grow up like their fathers. This book is for boys who, with their fathers, will share those precious moments that create the stuff of a lifetime from which successful sons and, because of them, successful fathers are made. It offers thirty-three chapters of things for fathers and sons to make and do together--make a kite, write a poem, build a tree house, weave a basket, build a water drop microscope, and on through those wonderful long days of summer.
We have become the New American Slaves. Despite the democratic rhetoric we hear and believe, we have become enslaved. All of us are entapped by a complex web of corporate and governmental behemoths Spence calls the "New Slave Master" that today controls our airways, educates our children and manages every facet of our lives. And how do we become free? Spence tells us in a series of startling, courageous thought.
"With the simple power of John Steinbeck, Gerry Spence now writes this painfully honest autobiograpy that reaveals how a country lawyer became one of the greatest trial lawyers of our time. "
A New York Times best seller, translated and sold in twenty three foreign countries. This book has become a guide for every day living. Still it has become a text for law schools and universities on how to pursaude, how to get for yourself what you want.
The real inside story of the most famous murder case in American history. Spence solves the case and shows us where the trial went wrong.
From Freedom to Slavery is the chilling prophecy of one of America's most original and fearless defenders of freedom, a book written with the passion of Thomas Paine. Spence says,
"Although we give lip service to the notion of freedom, we know the government is no longer the servant of the people but has become the people's master. We have stood by like timid sheep while the wolf killed--first the strays, then those on the outer edges of the flock, until at last the entire flock belonged to the wolf.
This is a passionate look at the American way of justice. Spence, who rose to fame in the Karen Silkwood case, delivers to Americans an urgent, provocative message: "That unless we are wealthy or powerful enough to buy it, we'll rarely experience justice."
The True Story of a Woman's Ordeal at the Hands of the Law,( Morrow, N.Y., l986.)
Spence leads us into dark and exciting places in search of justice for a modern woman who claimed she was defamed by Penthouse magazine--behind the scenes, into the judge's chambers, and into the very mind of the trial lawyer himself.
Of Murder and Madness is the remarkable true story of a little-known Mexican-American from a remote Wyoming town who one day killed his white wife in a room full of witnesses-and it is attorney Gerry Spence's own story as well, as he pleads his client, Joe Esquibel, "not guilty by reason of insanity."