America's lawyer-presidents
Subtitle: from law office to Oval Office
By: edited by Norman Gross ; with a foreword by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.
Contributors: Gross, Norman.
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.; Biography
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: Founding fathers and sons; value: Law in Colonial America / Lawrence M. Friedman; value: John Adams : patriot lawyer / L. Kinvin Wroth; value: Thomas Jefferson : Legal Wordsmith / David T. Konig; value: James Monore : occasional lawyer / Daniel Preston; value: John Quincy Adams : eloquent advocate / Howard Jones; value: Antebellum presidents; value: Law in antebellum America / Lawrence M. Friedman; value: Andrew Jackson : frontier justice / David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler; value: Martin van Buren : boy lawyer / James A. Henretta; value: John Tyler : Virginia counsel / E. Lee Shepard; value: James K. Polk : sometime lawyer / Robert W. Johannsen; value: Millard Fillmore : lawyer mentor / Elbert B. Smith; value: Franklin Pierce : courtroom orator / Christopher M. Johnson; value: James Buchanan : strict constructionist / Jean H. Baker; value: Lawyer Lincoln; value: Abraham Lincoln : prairie lawyer / Paul Finkelman; value: Selected cases of A. Lincoln, esq., attorney and counsellor-at-law / John A. Lupton; value: Lincoln's Notes for a law lecture; value: ^Gilded age presidents; value: Law in the gilded age / Lawrence M. Friedman; value: Rutherford B. Hayes : volunteer counsel / Ari Hoogenboom; value: James A. garfield : Supreme Court counsel / Allan Peskin; value: Chester A. Arthur : war crimes lawyer / Thomas C. Reeves; value: Grover Cleveland : an honest lawyer / Eugene C. Gerhart; value: Benjamin Harrison : high-priced counsel / Allen Sharp; value: William McKinley : a good lawyer / Lewis L. Could; value: New century presidents; value: law in the new century / Lawrence M. Friedman; value: William Howard taft : Mr. Chief Justice / Melvyn Dubofsky; value: Woodrow Wilson : reluctant lawyer / Melvin I. Urofsky; value: Calvin Coolidge : country lawyer / Russell Fowler; value: Franklin Delano Roosevelt : contrarian counselor / Jerome J. Shestack; value: The modern presidency; value: Law in modern America / Lawrence M. Friedman; value: Richard M. Nixon : biocoastal practitioner / Irwin F. Gellman; value: Gerlad R. Ford : all-American counsel / David Horrocks; value: ^William Jefferson Clinton : political lawyer / David H. Bennett; value: Presidential appointments : Supreme Court Justices and chief government lawyers; value: Lawyer-presidents and their Supreme Court appointments / Barbara A. Perry; value: Supreme Court appointments; value: Lawyer-presidents and their attorneys (general) / Cornell W. Clayton; value: Attorneys general appointments; value: Solicitors general appointments.