Abraham Lincoln, Esq. - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Abraham Lincoln, Esq. write by Roger Billings. This book was released on 2010-11-01. Abraham Lincoln, Esq. available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Lincoln scholars explore the president’s law career in this informative volume, examining his legal writings on matters from ethics to the Constitution. As our nation's most beloved and recognizable president, Abraham Lincoln is best known for the Emancipation Proclamation and for guiding our country through the Civil War. But before he took the oath of office, Lincoln practiced law for nearly twenty-five years in the Illinois courts. In Abraham Lincoln, Esq., notable historiansexamine Lincoln's law practice and the effect it had on his presidency and the country. This volume offers new perspectives on Lincoln’s work in Illinois as well as his time in Washington. Each chapter offers an expansive look at Lincoln's legal mind and covers diverse topics such as Lincoln's legal writing, ethics, Constitutional law, and international law. Abraham Lincoln, Esq. emphasizes this overlooked period in Lincoln's career and sheds light on Lincoln's life before he became America’s sixteenth president.
Lincoln the Lawyer
Lincoln the Lawyer - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lincoln the Lawyer write by Brian R. Dirck. This book was released on 2008-12-12. Lincoln the Lawyer available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What the law did to and for Abraham Lincoln, and its important impact on his future presidency
Lincoln's Greatest Case: The River, the Bridge, and the Making of America
Lincoln's Greatest Case: The River, the Bridge, and the Making of America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lincoln's Greatest Case: The River, the Bridge, and the Making of America write by Brian McGinty. This book was released on 2015-02-09. Lincoln's Greatest Case: The River, the Bridge, and the Making of America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The untold story of how one sensational trial propelled a self-taught lawyer and a future president into the national spotlight. In May of 1856, the steamboat Effie Afton barreled into a pillar of the Rock Island Bridge, unalterably changing the course of American transportation history. Within a year, long-simmering tensions between powerful steamboat interests and burgeoning railroads exploded, and the nation’s attention, absorbed by the Dred Scott case, was riveted by a new civil trial. Dramatically reenacting the Effie Afton case—from its unlikely inception, complete with a young Abraham Lincoln’s soaring oratory, to the controversial finale—this “masterful” (Christian Science Monitor) account gives us the previously untold story of how one sensational trial propelled a self-taught lawyer and a future president into the national spotlight.
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Abraham Lincoln write by Justine Fontes. This book was released on 2001. Abraham Lincoln available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A biography of Abraham Lincoln emphasizing his roles of lawyer, president, and legend.
An Honest Calling
An Honest Calling - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Honest Calling write by Mark E. Steiner. This book was released on 2006. An Honest Calling available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Abraham Lincoln practiced law for nearly 25 years, five times longer than he served as president. Nonetheless, this aspect of his life was known only in the broadest outlines until the Lincoln Legal Papers project set to work gathering the surviving documentation of more than 5,600 of his cases. One of the first scholars to work in this vast collection, Mark E. Steiner goes beyond the hasty sketches of previous biographers to paint a detailed portrait of Lincoln the lawyer. This portrait not only depicts Lincoln's work for the railroads and the infamous case in which he defended the claims of a slaveholder; it also illustrates his more typical cases involving debt and neighborly disputes. Steiner describes Lincoln's legal education, the economics of the law office, and the changes in legal practice that Lincoln himself experienced as the nation became an industrial, capitalist society. Most important, Steiner highlights Lincoln's guiding principles as a lawyer." "In contrast to the popular caricature of the lawyer as a scoundrel, Lincoln followed his personal resolve to be "honest at all events," thus earning the nickname "Honest Abe." For him, honesty meant representing clients to the best of his ability, regardless of his own beliefs about the justice of their cause. Lincoln also embraced a professional ideal that cast the lawyer as a guardian of order. He was as willing to mediate a dispute outside the courtroom in the interest of maintaining peace as he was eager to win cases before a jury." "Over the course of his legal career, however, Lincoln's dedication to the community and his clients' personal interests became outmoded. As a result of the rise of powerful, faceless corporate clients and the national debate over slavery, Lincoln the lawyer found himself in an increasingly impersonal, morally ambiguous world."--BOOK JACKET.
