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In May of 1856, the steamboat Effie Afton barreled into a pillar of the Rock Island Bridge the first railroad bridge ever to span the Mississippi River 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, then absorbed by the Dred Scott case, was riveted by a new civil trial. With nothing less than the lifeblood of two vital American industries at stake, a handful of crack legal practitioners including a lanky prairie lawyer named Abraham Lincoln descended on a Chicago courtroom. Dramatically reenacting the Effie Afton case from its unlikely inception to Lincoln s soaring oratory to the controversial finale and fallout, historian and lawyer Brian McGinty brilliantly animates this legal cauldron of the late 1850s and Lincoln s most momentous, pre Civil War trial, an essential first act to a pivotal Lincoln drama we barely knew existed."

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Zařazení knihy Knihy v angličtině Literature & literary studies

• Plný název: Lincoln's Greatest Case - The River, the Bridge, and the Making of America
• Autor: Brian McGinty
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Pevná
• Počet stran: 272
• EAN: 9780871407849
• ISBN: 0871407841
• ID: 05160821
• Nakladatelství: W W Norton & Co Ltd
• Hmotnost: 666 g
• Rozměry: 234 × 155 × 23 mm
• Datum vydání: 10. March 2015

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