The Litchfield Law School: Guiding the New Nation - Hicks, Paul DeForest
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"Just a year after the American Revolution ended, a lawyer named Tapping Reeve built a small schoolhouse next to his home in Litchfield, Connecticut. The Litchfield Law School was arguably the United States' first. Paul DeForest Hicks leaves no doubt that it was the most important law school before the Civil War. This gracefully written book tells the story of this tiny institution with national reach through the experiences of its alumni. Hicks finds Litchfield students seemingly everywhere in the young nation, and convincingly shows how they influenced the development of American politics,…mehr

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"Just a year after the American Revolution ended, a lawyer named Tapping Reeve built a small schoolhouse next to his home in Litchfield, Connecticut. The Litchfield Law School was arguably the United States' first. Paul DeForest Hicks leaves no doubt that it was the most important law school before the Civil War. This gracefully written book tells the story of this tiny institution with national reach through the experiences of its alumni. Hicks finds Litchfield students seemingly everywhere in the young nation, and convincingly shows how they influenced the development of American politics, proslavery and antislavery ideas, capitalism, and law." -- Mark Boonshoft, Professor of History, Norwich University
Autorenporträt
Paul DeForest Hicks is a graduate of Princeton and Harvard Law School. After practicing law in Denver, Colorado, he returned to New York where he joined J.P. Morgan. Retiring as a Managing Director after more than thirty years, he began a third career as a writer. He is the author of Joseph Henry Lumpkin: Georgiäs First Chief Justice, which Atlanta History called, ¿A concise, direct and imminently readable volume¿¿ His second book, John E. Parsons: An Eminent New Yorker in the Gilded Age, was described by one reviewer as ¿A valuable insight into the influence of the legal profession in the Gilded Age.¿