America's lawyer-presidents
Subtitle: from law office to Oval Office
By: edited by Norman Gross ; foreword by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.
Contributors: Gross, Norman.; ABA Museum of Law.
Publisher: Northwestern University Press; ABA Museum of Law
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Evanston, Ill; Chicago, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
Subjects: Lawyers -- United States -- Biography; Presidents -- United States -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: "America's Lawyer-Presidents sheds light on the legal backgrounds of chief executives and describes how their experiences as lawyers affected and shaped their presidencies. Written by historians and presidential scholars and highlighted by photos, illustrations, and sidebars, America's Lawyer-Presidents provides new insights into our national leader and their lives and times from colonial days to the present."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-334) and index.
Table of contents: title: Founding fathers and sons. Law in colonial America / Lawrence M. Friedman ; John Adams: patriot lawyer / L. Kinvin Wroth ; Thomas Jefferson: legal wordsmith / David T. Konig ; James Monroe: occasional lawyer / Daniel Preston ; John Quincy Adams: eloquent advocate / Howard Jones; title: Antebellum presidents. Law in antebellum America / Lawrence M. Friedman ; Andrew Jackson: frontier justice / David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler ; Martin van Buren: boy lawyer / James A. Henretta; title: John Tyler: Virginia counsel / E. Lee Shepard; title: James K. Polk: sometime lawyer / Robert W. Johannsen ; Millard Fillmore: lawyer mentor / Elbert B. Smith ; Franklin Pierce: courtroom orator / Christopher M. Johnson ; James Buchanan: strict constructionist / Jean H. Baker; title: Lawyer Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln: prairie lawyer / Paul Finkelman ; Selected cases of A. Lincoln, esq., attorney and counsellor-at-law / John A. Lupton ; Lincoln's Notes for a law lecture; title: Gilded age presidents. Law in the gilded age / Lawrence M. Friedman ; Rutherford B. Hayes: volunteer counsel / Ari Hoogenboom ; James A. Garfield: Supreme Court counsel / Allan Peskin ; Chester A. Arthur: war crimes lawyer / Thomas C. Reeves ; Grover Cleveland: an honest lawyer / Eugene C. Gerhart; title: Benjamin Harrison: high-priced counsel / Allen Sharp ; William McKinley: a good lawyer / Lewis L. Could; title: New century presidents. Law in the new century / Lawrence M. Friedman ; William Howard Taft: Mr. Chief Justice / Melvyn Dubofsky; title: Woodrow Wilson: reluctant lawyer / Melvin I. Urofsky ; Calvin Coolidge: country lawyer / Russell Fowler ; Franklin Delano Roosevelt: contrarian counselor / Jerome J. Shestack; title: The modern presidency. Law in modern America / Lawrence M. Friedman ; Richard M. Nixon: biocoastal practitioner / Irwin F. Gellman ; Gerald R. Ford: all-American counsel / David Horrocks ; William Jefferson Clinton: political lawyer / David H. Bennett; title: Presidential appointments: Supreme Court Justices and chief government lawyers. Lawyer-presidents and their Supreme Court appointments / Barbara A. Perry ; Supreme Court appointments ; Lawyer-presidents and their attorneys (general) / Cornell W. Clayton ; Attorney general appointments ; Solicitor general appointments.