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- Author: Brian McGinty
- Publisher: Liveright
- Year: 2015
- Pages: 288
- ISBN: 9780871407856
- ISBN-10: 087140785X
- ISBN-13: 9780871407856
- Format: ePub
- Language: English
Lincoln's Greatest Case: The River, the Bridge, and the Making of America (e-book) (used book) | bookbook.eu
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In May of 1856, the steamboat Effie Afton barreled into a pillar of the Rock Island Bridge, unalterably changing the course of American transportation history. Within a year, long-simmering tensions between powerful steamboat interests and burgeoning railroads exploded, and the nation’s attention, absorbed by the Dred Scott case, was riveted by a new civil trial. Dramatically reenacting the Effie Afton case—from its unlikely inception, complete with a young Abraham Lincoln’s soaring oratory, to the controversial finale—this “masterful” (Christian Science Monitor) account gives us the previously untold story of how one sensational trial propelled a self-taught lawyer and a future president into the national spotlight.
- Author: Brian McGinty
- Publisher: Liveright
- Year: 2015
- Pages: 288
- ISBN: 9780871407856
- ISBN-10: 087140785X
- ISBN-13: 9780871407856
- Format: ePub
- Language: English English
In May of 1856, the steamboat Effie Afton barreled into a pillar of the Rock Island Bridge, unalterably changing the course of American transportation history. Within a year, long-simmering tensions between powerful steamboat interests and burgeoning railroads exploded, and the nation’s attention, absorbed by the Dred Scott case, was riveted by a new civil trial. Dramatically reenacting the Effie Afton case—from its unlikely inception, complete with a young Abraham Lincoln’s soaring oratory, to the controversial finale—this “masterful” (Christian Science Monitor) account gives us the previously untold story of how one sensational trial propelled a self-taught lawyer and a future president into the national spotlight.
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