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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 46. Chapters: Editing, Thomas Fitch, Karl Kraus, Henry Martyn Whitney, Paschal Eze, John Edward Bush, Muhammad Farooq, Adolph Joffe, Cristina Odone, Uri Zvi Grinberg, John Heriot, Eldora Marie Bolyard Nuzum, Isaac Leeser, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, Joseph Cookman, Tariq Alhomayed, Berl Katznelson, Kemal Kurspahi, David Landau, David Edelstadt, Williams Sassine, Ivo Pukani, Leonard Matters, Robert B. Thompson, Chansa Kabwela, Israel Dov Frumkin, Joe Stroud, Eugene M O'Neill, Hezekiah Niles, F. S. Malan, Bret Stephens, Budi Putra, Danielle Pletka, Yosef Jacobson, David Horovitz, Hussain Andaryas, A.V.H. Hartendorp, Jose Peirats, Ilya Tsivtsivadze, Jean Luzac, Roger Edwards, David Shamah, Luke Sela, Lal Wickrematunge, Issam Nassar, Vishweshwar Bhat, Ernesto Alemann, Tahir Mirza, Michael Fleischhacker, Dave Kansas, Nop Bophann, Leib Yaffe, Friedrich Schutz. Excerpt: Thomas Fitch (January 27, 1838 - November 12, 1923) was an American laywer and politician. He defended President Brigham Young of the Church of Latter-day Saints and other church leaders when Young and his denomination were prosecuted for polygamy in 1871 and 1872. He also successfully defended Virgil, Morgan, and Wyatt Earp along with Doc Holliday when they were accused of murdering Billy Clanton, and Tom and Frank McLaury during the October 25, 1881 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Fitch wrote for and edited a number of newspapers during his life and served in multiple political offices. He was a stout Republican and campaigned for Abraham Lincoln across Nevada. He developed a reputation as a capable lawyer and a terrific speaker and was nicknamed the "silver-tongued orator of the Pacific." He was a member of the California State Assembly in 1862 and 1863. In 1864, he was living in Virginia City, Nevada, where he edited the Virginia Daily Union. He became friends with Mark Twain...
