Abraham Lincoln's Most Famous Case

Abraham Lincoln's Most Famous Case

George Dekle
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Even after the mythical elements are removed, the true story of Abraham Lincoln and the Almanac Trial is a compelling tale of courtroom drama that involves themes of friendship and loyalty. Abraham Lincoln's Most Famous Case: The Almanac Trial sets the record straight: it examines how the dual myths of the dramatic cross-examination and the forged almanac came to be, describes how Lincoln actually won the case, and establishes how Lincoln's behavior at the trial was above reproach.

The book outlines three conflicting versions of how Lincoln won the Almanac Trial—with a dramatic cross-examination; with an impassioned final argument; or with a forged almanac—and then traces the transformation of these three stories over the decades as they were retold in the forms of campaign rhetoric, biography, history, and legal analysis. After the author exposes the inaccuracies of previous attempts to tell the story of the trial, he refers to primary sources to...

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年:
2014
出版社:
ABC-CLIO;Praeger
语言:
english
页:
227
ISBN 10:
1440830509
ISBN 13:
9781440830501
文件:
EPUB, 2.46 MB
IPFS:
CID , CID Blake2b
english, 2014
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