Abraham Lincoln, Esq.: The Legal Career of America’s Greatest President

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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 administrative center, Lincoln practiced law for just about twenty-five years in the Illinois courts. Abraham Lincoln, Esq.: The Legal Career of The usa’s Greatest President examines Lincoln’s law practice and the effect it had on his presidency and the country.

Editors Roger Billings and Frank J. Williams, along side a notable list of contributors, examine Lincoln’s career as a general-practice attorney, taking a look both at his work in Illinois and on the time he spent in Washington. Every chapter offers an expansive take a look at Lincoln’s legal mind and covers diverse topics such as Lincoln’s legal writing, ethics, the Constitution, and international law. Abraham Lincoln, Esq. emphasizes this continuously lost sight of period in Lincoln’s career and sheds light on Lincoln’s life before he became our sixteenth president.

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