Lincoln's Ladder to the Presidency: The Eighth Judicial Circuit

by Guy C. Fraker

Book Overview

Univeristy Press Books for Public and Secondary Schools 2013 edition
Superior Achievement by the Illinois State Historical Society, 2013

Throughout his twenty-three-year 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809332019
• ISBN13: 9780809332014
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.1"