America's lawyer-presidents
Subtitle: from law office to Oval Office
By: edited by Norman Gross ; foreword by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor
Contributors: ABA Museum of Law
Edition: Updated ed.
Publisher: ABA Museum of Law; Northwestern University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill; Evanston, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 371
ISBN-13: 9780810126183
Subjects: Lawyers; Biography; Presidents
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [357]-360) and index.
Table of contents: title: Law in colonial America  -- Lawrence M. Friedman; title: John Adams : patriot lawyer  -- L. Kinvin Wroth; title: Thomas Jefferson : legal wordsmith  -- David T. Konig; title: James Monroe : occasional lawyer  -- Daniel Preston; title: John Quincy Adams : eloquent advocate  -- Howard Jones; title: Law in Antebellum America -- Lawrence M. Friedman; title: Andrew Jackson : frontier justice  -- David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler; title: 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; title: Millard Fillmore : lawyer mentor  -- Elbert B. Smith; title: Franklin Pierce : courtroom orator  -- Christopher M. Johnson; title: James Buchanan : strict constructionist  -- Jean H. Baker; title: Abraham Lincoln : prairie lawyer  -- Paul Finkelman; title: Selected cases of A. Lincoln, Esq., attorney and counsellor-at-Law  -- John A. Lupton; title: Lincoln's notes for a law lecture --; title: Law in the gilded age ; title: Lawrence M. Friedman; title: Rutherford B. Hayes : volunteer counsel  -- Ari Hoogenboom; title: James A. Garfield : Supreme Court counsel  -- Allan Peskin; title: Chester A. Arthur : war claims lawyer  -- Thomas C. Reeves; title: Grover Cleveland : an honest lawyer  -- Eugene C. Gerhart; title: Benjamin Harrison : high-priced counsel  -- Allen Sharp; title: William McKinley : a good lawyer  -- Lewis L. Gould; title: Law in the new century  -- Lawrence M. Friedman; title: William Howard Taft : Mr. Chief Justice  -- Melvyn Dubofsky; title: Woodrow Wilson : reluctant lawyer  -- Melvin I. Urofsky; title: Calvin Coolidge : country lawyer  -- Russell Fowler; title: Franklin Delano Roosevelt : contrarian counselor  -- Jerome J. Shestack; title: Law in modern America  -- Lawrence M. Friedman; title: Richard M. Nixon : bicoastal practitioner  -- Irwin F. Gellman; title: Gerald R. Ford : all-American counsel  -- David Horrocks; title: William Jefferson Clinton : political lawyer -- David H. Bennett; title: Barack Obama : community organizer  -- Charles J. Ogletree, Jr.; title: Almost lawyer-presidents  -- Lewis L. Guold; title: Lawyer-Presidents and their Supreme Court appointments  -- Barbara A. Perry; title: Lawyer-Presidents and their attorneys (general)  -- Cornell W. Clayton; title: Attorney general appointments --; title: Solicitor general appointments.