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Abraham Lincoln, Esq. : the legal career of America's greatest president /
As our nation's most beloved and recognizable president, Abraham Lincoln is best known for the Emancipation Proclamation and for guiding our country through the Civil War. But before he took the oath of office, Lincoln practiced law for nearly twenty-five years in the Illinois courts. Abraham L...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington, Ky. :
University Press of Kentucky,
©2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- pt. 1. Evaluating Lincoln's career. Reassessing Lincoln's legal career / Harold Holzer
- Lincoln's lessons for lawyers / Frank J. Williams
- Does lawyer Lincoln matter? / Mark E. Steiner
- A. Lincoln, respectable "prairie lawyer" / Brian Dirck
- pt. 2. The Illinois years. A. Lincoln, debtor-creditor lawyer / Roger Billings
- The power of Lincoln's legal words / John A. Lupton
- Competence, diligence, and getting paid : Lincoln's lessons for today's ethical lawyer / William T. Ellis and Billie J. Ellis Jr.
- Lincoln's legal ethics : the client correspondence / Roger Billings
- Lincoln and the Kentuckians : placing Lincoln in context with lawyers and clients from his native state / Christopher A. Schnell
- pt. 3. The Washington years. Abraham Lincoln as practical constitutional lawyer / Mackubin Thomas Owens
- President Lincoln : the international lawyer / William D. Pederson.