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Lincoln's Last Trial: The Murder Case That Propelled Him to the Presidency
Lincoln's Last Trial The Murder Case That Propelled Him to the Presidency
Author: Dan Abrams, David Fisher
At the end of the summer of 1859, twenty-two-year-old Peachy Quinn Harrison went on trial for murder in Springfield, Illinois. Abraham Lincoln was hired to defend him. This was to be his last great case as a lawyer.  — What normally would have been a local case took on momentous meaning. Lincoln’s debates with Stephen Douglas had gaine...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781335015624
ISBN-10: 1335015620
Publication Date: 4/28/2020
Pages: 416
Edition: Original
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Publisher: Hanover Square Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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