Brian Mcginty

Lincoln's Greatest Case: The River, the Bridge, and the Making of America (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 casefrom its unlikely inception, complete with a young Abraham Lincoln's soaring oratory, to the controversial finalethis 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Liveright
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780871407856
• Artikelnr.: 59588996

Autorenporträt

Brian McGinty is an attorney and writer who specializes in American history and law. His previous books include Lincoln's Greatest Case, The Body of John Merryman: Abraham Lincoln and the Suspension of Habeas Corpus, and John Brown's Trial. He lives in Scottsdale, Arizona.