Title: The steel bar : Pittsburgh lawyers and the making of America /
Authors: Schuler, Ron, 1963-
Year: 2019
Subjects: Law Pennsylvania History.; Law United States History; LAW / Legal History.; HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA); Law; Pittsburgh (Pa.) History; Pennsylvania History; Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania Pittsburgh; United States
Abstract: The definitive history of Pittsburgh's legal profession, THE STEEL BAR examines the city's role in the development of U.S. democratic and commercial institutions and how its lawyers helped to shape U.S. history in significant ways; with snapshots of the city's lawyers grappling with nation-defining issues amid the development of the corporation, labor vs. management, the federal vs. the local, corruption and reform, and the decline and "renaissance" of a rust-belt city.
Contents: Introduction -- Part I. The early bar, 1788-1866 -- Whiskey, guns and lawyers -- Conflagration! -- Part II. The gilded bar, 1866-1901 -- Thomas Mellon : lawyer as capitalist -- The corporation men -- What a strike looks like -- A genius devises a legal engine -- Absconding attorneys -- New pioneers -- Mighty Casey at the bar -- Gilded twilight, in four acts -- Part III. The progressive era bar, 1902-1942 -- Three rivers, running dirty -- Big work, big war -- Anarchy : interrupting and interrupted -- Lawyer, where do you stand? -- 'The plainest facts of our national life' -- Out in the open -- Bad company -- Part IV. The WWII and post-war bar, 1942-1988 -- Won't you be my neighbor? -- Red to the world -- Continuity and loss in the golden triangle -- Years for inches -- Self-inflicted -- Backwards and in high heels -- Beyond Renaissance -- Law city : an epilogue.