America's Lawyer-presidents

From Law Office to Oval Office

Buch | Softcover

384 Seiten

2009
Northwestern University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8101-2618-3 (ISBN)

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Focuses on the legal backgrounds of America's lawyer-presidents and how their experiences as lawyers impacted and shaped their presidencies. This title provides insights into our national leaders and their lives and times, from colonial days to the present.

The historic election of Barack Obama was rife with references to Abraham Lincoln, perhaps the greatest lawyer-president, whose legal career spanned 25 years and 5,100 cases. President Obama's ties to Lincoln are part of a great tradition begun by John Adams, the first lawyer-president, who combined a twenty-year law practice with major contributions to our nation's founding charters. His son, John Quincy Adams, argued landmark U.S. Supreme Court cases both before and after his presidency, one of eight lawyer-presidents to appear as counsel before the highest court in the land. And Rutherford B. Hayes and Benjamin Harrison were among those lawyer-presidents who handled notable high-profile cases, including sensational murder trials. These are but a few of the fascinating - yet still largely unknown - stories about America's lawyer-presidents. Now available in an updated, expanded paperback edition, ""America's Lawyer-Presidents"" sheds light on the legal backgrounds of each of these chief executives and how their experiences as lawyers impacted and shaped their presidencies. Written by historians and presidential scholars and featuring an engaging and image-rich presentation, ""America's Lawyer-Presidents"" provides unique insights into our national leaders and their lives and times, from colonial days to the present.

Norman Gross was the founding director of the American Bar Association Museum of Law in Chicago. He is now a consultant living in Arizona.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.10.2009
Vorwort	Sandra Day O'Connor
Zusatzinfo	61 colour & 94 b/w photographs
Verlagsort	Evanston
Sprache	englisch
Maße	180 x 250 mm
Gewicht	1182 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	0-8101-2618-4 / 0810126184
ISBN-13	978-0-8101-2618-3 / 9780810126183
Zustand	Neuware