Lincoln's Greatest Case (Instant Digital Access Code Only)

Edition : 0th, 2015
Author(s) : Brian McGinty

Lincoln's Greatest Case (Instant Digital Access Code Only)
- ISBN: 9781631491474
- SKU: 308179V
- Format: VitalSource eBook/ePub
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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.