A. Lincoln, Prairie LawyerAuthor makes use of the Herndon-Weik Papers, first opened to the public in 1942, and of the Robert Todd Lincoln Collection, which was not accessible until 1947, in the biography of Abraham Lincoln as a lawyer. |
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Page 301
... mind and heart , coupled with the gift of expressing himself in plain and pointed and unequivocal language , were precisely the essentials for success on the bench - in Lincoln's or any other day . And if ever the expression " judicial ...
... mind and heart , coupled with the gift of expressing himself in plain and pointed and unequivocal language , were precisely the essentials for success on the bench - in Lincoln's or any other day . And if ever the expression " judicial ...
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... mind , as usual , went straight to the vital point ( the winning point , if his client was to prevail ) —that the accident could only have occurred through negligence in the handling of the Effie Afton . Lincoln had the ability , in the ...
... mind , as usual , went straight to the vital point ( the winning point , if his client was to prevail ) —that the accident could only have occurred through negligence in the handling of the Effie Afton . Lincoln had the ability , in the ...
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... minds of some , the question of his claim to greatness as a lawyer , and furnishes , per- haps , an argument in the ... mind , however , that the trial or appellate lawyer who takes every case that is thrown at him - even the ones where ...
... minds of some , the question of his claim to greatness as a lawyer , and furnishes , per- haps , an argument in the ... mind , however , that the trial or appellate lawyer who takes every case that is thrown at him - even the ones where ...
Contents
Early Contacts | 3 |
The Shape of Things to Come | 21 |
Stuart Lincoln | 35 |
Copyright | |
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