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Lincoln's Greatest Case - The River, the Bridge, and the Making of America
Inglese
66 b
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In May of 1856, the steamboat Effie Afton barreled into a pillar of the Rock Island Bridge the first railroad bridge ever to span the Mississippi River 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, then absorbed by the Dred Scott case, was riveted by a new civil trial. With nothing less than the lifeblood of two vital American industries at stake, a handful of crack legal practitioners including a lanky prairie lawyer named Abraham Lincoln descended on a Chicago courtroom. Dramatically reenacting the Effie Afton case from its unlikely inception to Lincoln s soaring oratory to the controversial finale and fallout, historian and lawyer Brian McGinty brilliantly animates this legal cauldron of the late 1850s and Lincoln s most momentous, pre Civil War trial, an essential first act to a pivotal Lincoln drama we barely knew existed."
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