Lincoln'S Ladder To The Presidency: The Eighth Judicial Circuit,Used

Lincoln'S Ladder To The Presidency: The Eighth Judicial Circuit,Used

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Univeristy Press Books for Public and Secondary Schools 2013 editionSuperior Achievement by the Illinois State Historical Society, 2013Throughout his twentythreeyear legal career, Abraham Lincoln spent nearly as much time on the road as an attorney for the Eighth Judicial Circuit as he did in his hometown of Springfield, Illinois. Yet most historians gloss over the time and instead have Lincoln emerge fully formed as a skillful politician in 1858. In this innovative volume, Guy C. Fraker provides the firstever study of Lincolns professional and personal home away from home and demonstrates how the Eighth Judicial Circuit and its people propelled Lincoln to the presidency.Each spring and fall, Lincoln traveled to as many as fourteen county seats in the Eighth Judicial Circuit to appear in consecutive court sessions over a ten to twelveweek period. Fraker describes the people and counties that Lincoln encountered, discusses key cases Lincoln handled, and introduces the important friends he made, friends who eventually formed the team that executed Lincolns nomination strategy at the Chicago Republican Convention in 1860 and won him the presidential nomination.As Fraker shows, the Eighth Judicial Circuit provided the perfect setting for the growth and ascension of Lincoln. A complete portrait of the sixteenth president depends on a full understanding of his experience on the circuit, and Lincolns Ladder to the Presidency provides that understanding as well as a fresh perspective on the muchstudied figure, thus deepening our understanding of the roots of his political influence and acumen.

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