Lincoln's Forgotten Friend, Leonard Swett /
In 1849, while traveling as an attorney on the Eighth Judicial Circuit in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln befriended Leonard Swett (1825-89), a fellow attorney sixteen years his junior. Despite this age difference, the two men built an enduring friendship that continued until Lincoln's assassination...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Carbondale :
Southern Illinois University Press,
2012.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- A wandering youth
- The road to Mount Pulaski
- The great triumvirate of the Eighth Judicial Circuit
- Politics overtakes the law
- From the Wigwam to Washington
- And the war came
- Witness to the emancipation
- Quicksilver and New Almaden
- This terrible war
- A strategic decision
- Legal advocate and civic leader
- The better angels of our nature.