Lincolns Greatest Case, Brian McGinty
Lincolns Greatest Case, Brian McGinty
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Lincoln's Greatest Case
The River, The Bridge, and The Making of America

Author: Brian McGinty

Narrator: Richard Poe

Unabridged: 7 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/13/2015


Synopsis

Lincoln scholar Brian McGinty paints history on a grand scale as he re-creates a legal case that changed the face of a nation. Before becoming president, Abraham Lincoln successfully argued a trial pitting railroad vs. steamboat. In the course of this untold story, listeners follow the creation of a transnational railroad while witnessing the future president's ascension to the national stage.

About Brian McGinty

Brian McGinty is the award-winning author of twelve books, including Lincoln's Greatest Case: The River, the Bridge, and the Making of America; Lincoln and the Court; and John Brown's Trial, and more than two hundred articles on American history, the American West, and American legal history.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bill on May 03, 2022

This review is entirely subjective (as I suppose all reviews are), since some reviewers really seemed to like this book. But it didn't really do it for me. I do know to be wary of books that put Abraham Lincoln in the title and on the cover, when the story they aim to tell is not strictly about Linc......more

Goodreads review by Robert on July 08, 2015

As a native son of Rock Island, IL, I learned about Lincoln's role in the Effie Afton steamboat case at sometime in my local schooling. When I read a review of Lincoln's Greatest Case in the the Times and then saw it on the shelves of my neighborhood library, I decided to read it. I think that Mr. M......more

Goodreads review by Jim on February 13, 2020

A rather short book, but the definitive account of the Effie Afton trial of 1857, which legal historian McGinty argues was the most important one of Abraham Lincoln's nearly 25-year career as a lawyer. This is Hurd et al v. The Railroad Bridge Co. The steamboat "Effie Afton" (owned by Hurd) crashed......more

Goodreads review by Donald on July 01, 2020

A good little history book on a limited but important topic. The book is well organized and reported. The role of and importance to Lincoln are soundly explored. There are connections to Lincoln's future and our Country's history disclosed in the story but I cannot give the fifth star. Big parts of......more

Goodreads review by David on March 18, 2015

A fascinating book about one of Lincoln's most important but little discussed trials. The trial was that of Hurd et al. v. The Railroad Bridge Company and pits powerful Mississippi River steamboat interests against those of the nascent railroad companies. In short, a side-wheeler steamboat, the Effi......more