Lincoln's Greatest Case: The River, the Bridge, and the Making of America (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781631491474)

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
ISBN-10: 1631491474
ISBN-13: 9781631491474
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Language: English
Published: 02/01/2016
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.80d