Author : Brian McGinty
Release : 2015-02-09
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 85X/5 ( reviews)

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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.