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Kentucky Lawyer

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Judge Mac Swinford used to be one of the crucial longest-serving federal judges in United States history. All over his lengthy tenure in the Kentucky courts, he came to know and appreciate the deep complexity of the law, understanding that it may be solid and fluid, broad and narrow, kind and harsh, changeless yet all the time evolving. In this service to the state and to the law, he felt that it used to be steadily his fellow lawyers who touched and educated him most.

Kentucky Lawyer presents the most humorous, enlightening, and poignant moments of a remarkable fifty-year career. Judge Swinford offers a unique Kentucky history, recounting instances of the drama and romance of the Kentucky bar. In “A Kentucky Ghost Story,” he takes readers to the banks of Crooked Creek in Harrison County, where the spirit of a wrongfully accused man still affects judicial decisions. “Cost of Love” recalls a trial in Carlisle County in which a scorned lover files suit against her ex-fiancĂ© for breach of promise, claiming ten thousand dollars for a broken heart.

Remembering some of Kentucky’s most revered and respected jurists, Judge Swinford relates American culture in its most intimate and significant sense, through the acts and expressions of local leaders in the on a regular basis affairs of life. His stories of humble commitment highlight the lives of men such as Henry Clay, Lieutenant Governor Rodes K. Myers, and Senator Joe C.S. Blackburn, who championed unpopular cases and stood on the vanguard of government and community affairs. Kentucky Lawyer pays tribute to a couple of Kentucky’s “in point of fact great men,” with the hope that legend will preserve them for us in memory. Now back in print, this classic book illuminates the varied work and world of the twentieth-century lawyer with elegance and humor.

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