America's lawyer-presidents : from law office to Oval Office / edited by Norman Gross ; with a foreword by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Gross, Norman
Language:English
Published: Chicago, Ill. : Evanston, Ill. : ABA Museum of Law ; Northwestern University Press, 2009.
Edition:Updated edition.
Subjects:
Lawyers > United States > Biography.
Presidents > United States > Biography.
Genre:
Biography.
Physical Description:xix, 371 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 27 cm
Format: Book

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505 0 0 |t Founding Fathers and Sons --  |t Law in Colonial America /  |r Lawrence M. Friedman  |g 4 --  |t John Adams: Patriot Lawyer /  |r L. Kinvin Wroth  |g 6 --  |t Thomas Jefferson: Legal Wordsmith /  |r David T. Konig  |g 18 --  |t James Monroe: Occasional Lawyer /  |r Daniel Preston  |g 30 --  |t John Quincy Adams: Eloquent Advocate /  |r Howard Jones  |g 40 --  |t Antebellum Presidents --  |t Law in Antebellum America /  |r Lawrence M. Friedman  |g 50 --  |t Andrew Jackson: Frontier Justice /  |r David S. Heidler, Jeanne T. Heidler  |g 52 --  |t Martin Van Buren: Boy Lawyer /  |r James A. Henretta  |g 64 --  |t John Tyler: Virginia Counsel /  |r E. Lee Shepard  |g 76 --  |t James K. Polk: Sometime Lawyer /  |r Robert W. Johannsen  |g 86 --  |t Millard Fillmore: Lawyer Mentor /  |r Elbert B. Smith  |g 96 --  |t Franklin Pierce: Courtroom Orator /  |r Christopher M. Johnson  |g 106 --  |t James Buchanan: Strict Constructionist /  |r Jean H. Baker  |g 116 --  |t Lawyer Lincoln --  |t Abraham Lincoln: Prairie Lawyer /  |r Paul Finkelman  |g 128 --  |t Selected Cases of A. Lincoln, Esq., Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law /  |r John A. Lupton  |g 138 --  |t Lincoln's Notes for a Law Lecture  |g 146 --  |t Gilded Age Presidents --  |t Law in the Gilded Age /  |r Lawrence M. Friedman  |g 150 --  |t Rutherford B. Hayes: Volunteer Counsel /  |r Ari Hoogenboom  |g 152 --  |t James A. Garfield: Supreme Court Counsel /  |r Allan Peskin  |g 164 --  |t Chester A. Arthur: War Claims Lawyer /  |r Thomas C. Reeves  |g 174 --  |t Grover Cleveland: An Honest Lawyer /  |r Eugene C. Gerhart  |g 184 --  |t Benjamin Harrison: High-Priced Counsel /  |r Allen Sharp  |g 194 --  |t William McKinley: A Good Lawyer /  |r Lewis L. Gould  |g 206 --  |t New Century Presidents --  |t Law in the New Century /  |r Lawrence M. Friedman  |g 216 --  |t William Howard Taft: Mr. Chief Justice /  |r Melvyn Dubofsky  |g 218 --  |t Woodrow Wilson: Reluctant Lawyer /  |r Melvin I. Urofsky  |g 230 --  |t Calvin Coolidge: Country Lawyer /  |r Russell Fowler  |g 240 --  |t Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Contrarian Counselor /  |r Jerome J. Shestack  |g 252 --  |t The Modern Presidency --  |t Law in Modern America /  |r Lawrence M. Friedman  |g 264 --  |t Richard M. Nixon: Bicoastal Practitioner /  |r Irwin F. Gellman  |g 266 --  |t Gerald R. Ford: All-American Counsel /  |r David Horrocks  |g 278 --  |t William Jefferson Clinton: Political Lawyer /  |r David H. Bennett  |g 290 --  |t Barack Obama: Community Organizer /  |r Charles J. Ogletree, Jr.  |g 300 --  |t Almost Lawyer-Presidents /  |r Lewis L. Gould  |g 312 --  |t Presidential Appointments --  |t Supreme Court Justices and Chief Government Lawyers --  |t Lawyer-Presidents and Their Supreme Court Appointments /  |r Barbara A. Perry  |g 326 --  |t Supreme Court Appointments  |g 335 --  |t Lawyer-Presidents and Their Attorneys (General) /  |r Cornell W. Clayton  |g 339 --  |t Attorney General Appointments  |g 352 --  |t Solicitor General Appointments  |g 354. 
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