Introductory images -- Family and early years -- Getting started in the law -- The shock of the South -- Black power advocate -- Circus in Chicago -- Directions outside the courtroom -- Radical lawyers in modern America -- Representing the Attica prisoners -- Private life and practice in the 1970s -- Indian defenses -- The 1980s and a more diverse practice -- The scapegoat and the killer cops -- Return to the limelight -- Kunstler in his final years.