Mark E Steiner

An Honest Calling

The Law Practice of Abraham Lincoln

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Produktbeschreibung

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...

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 154mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 438g
• ISBN-13: 9780875806266
• ISBN-10: 0875806260
• Artikelnr.: 26872464

Autorenporträt

Mark E. Steiner is Professor of Law at South Texas College of Law. He received both his J.D. and his Ph.D. in History from the University of Houston.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Introduction
1-Lawyer Lincoln in American Memory
2-The Education of a Whig Lawyer
3-A Whig in the Courthouse
4-Law on the Prairie
5-In the Matter of Jane, A Woman of Color
6-Working for the Railroad
7-A Changing Legal Landscape
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index of Cases
General Index