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Lincoln'S Greatest Case eBook

The River, The Bridge, And The Making Of America

by Brian Mcginty
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Publisher: Liveright, February of 2015 ‧
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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.

Lincoln'S Greatest Case

The River, The Bridge, And The Making Of America

by Brian Mcginty

Property Description
ISBN: 9780871407856
Publisher: Liveright
Release Date: February of 2015
Language: English
Pages: 288
Format: eBook
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Categories: eBooks in English > History > History of America
eBooks in English > Fiction > Biographies
EAN: 9780871407856
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