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Throughout his twenty-three-year legal career, Abraham Lincoln spent nearly as much time on the road as an attorney for the Eighth Judicial Circuit as he did in his hometown of Springfield, Illinois. Yet most historians gloss over the time and instead have Lincoln emerge fully formed as a skillful p...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fraker, Guy C., 1938-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2012.
Temas:
Lincoln, Abraham, > 1809-1865.
Lincoln, Abraham, > 1809-1865
Illinois. > Circuit Court (8th Circuit) > History > 19th century.
Illinois. > Circuit Court (8th Circuit)
1800-1899
Law > Illinois > Downstate Illinois > History > 19th century.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Lawyers & Judges.
Law
Illinois > Downstate Illinois
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A new country
  • As happy as he could be
  • Purely and entirely a case lawyer
  • Sangamon, Tazewell, Woodford
  • Mclean, Livingston, Logan, Dewitt
  • Piatt, Champagne, Vermilion
  • Edgar, Shelby, Moultrie, Macon, Christian, Menard, Mason
  • The 1840s and the early 1850s
  • The awakenment
  • The repeal ... aroused me again
  • The tall sucker and the little giant
  • A little sketch
  • No stone unturned
  • We saw him no more.

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