03411cam a22003254a 4500 57417 20230410123440.0 040226s2004 iluab b 001 0ceng 2004004723 (OCoLC)ocm54544122 DLC DLC YDXCP CKX OCLCQ BAKER OCLCQ BTCTA DRFGD 0810112183 (trade cloth : alk. paper) 9780810112186 (trade cloth : alk. paper) (OCoLC)54544122 pcc n-us--- 340/.092/273 KF 353 A512 2004 America's lawyer-presidents : from law office to Oval Office / edited by Norman Gross ; with a foreword by Sandra Day O'Connor. Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press ; Chicago, Ill. : ABA Museum of Law, 2004. xix, 344 p. : ill. (some col.), map ; 26 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-334) and indexes. 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 -- 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 -- John Tyler: Virginia counsel / E. Lee Shepard -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 claims lawyer / Thomas C. Reeves ; Grover Cleveland: an honest lawyer / Eugene C. Gerhart -- Benjamin Harrison: high-priced counsel / Allen Sharp ; William McKinley: a good lawyer / Lewis L. Gould -- New century presidents. Law in the new century / Lawrence M. Friedman ; William Howard Taft: Mr. Chief Justice / Melvyn Dubofsky -- Woodrow Wilson: reluctant lawyer / Melvin I. Urofsky ; Calvin Coolidge: country lawyer / Russell Fowler ; Franklin Delano Roosevelt: contrarian counselor / Jerome J. Shestack -- 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 -- 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. Lawyers United States Biography. Presidents United States Biography. Gross, Norman. lcc bk lmminaya C0 DRFGD 61633 61633 0 0 lcc 0 0 CS BJB BJB CS 2023-04-10 1 0 KF 353 A512 2004 00000058764 2018-10-24 00:00:00 1 2018-10-24 bk