Lincoln’s Greatest Case: The River, the Bridge, and the Making of America
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Full Title

Lincoln\'s Greatest Case: The River, the Bridge, and the Making of America
Author(s)

Brian McGinty
Edition
ISBN

9780871407856, 9781631491474, 9780871407849
Publisher

Liveright
Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

The untold story of how one sensational trial propelled a self-taught lawyer and a future president into the national spotlight. 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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