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Author: Norman Gross ,
Sandra Day O'Connor ,
James R. Silkenat ,
Robert A. Stein
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Imprint: Northwestern University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 17.80cm
, Height: 3.40cm
, Length: 25.40cm
Weight: 1.315kg
ISBN: 9780810112186
ISBN 10: 0810112183
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 20 August 2004
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Out of Stock Indefinitely
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Twenty-five of the United States' forty-three Presidents have been lawyers, and yet their careers as attorneys have tended to receive scant attention when compared to their political lives, even though the training and activity of these men as lawyers often contributed deeply to their views on American institutions. America's Lawyer-Presidents, which is the work of an impressive assembly of respected scholars, is lucid, informative, and highly engaging. The book provides intriguing biographical perspectives on the professional lives of a number of our most influential citizens, and also demonstrates yet again the profound relationship between the development of American law and our democracy. -Scott Turow<br>
Twenty-five of the United States' forty-three Presidents have been lawyers, and yet their careers as attorneys have tended to receive scant attention when compared to their political lives, even though the training and activity of these men as lawyers often contributed deeply to their views on American institutions. America's Lawyer-Presidents, which is the work of an impressive assembly of respected scholars, is lucid, informative, and highly engaging. The book provides intriguing biographical perspectives on the professional lives of a number of our most influential citizens, and also demonstrates yet again the profound relationship between the development of American law and our democracy. -Scott Turow
Twenty-five of the United States' forty-three Presidents have been lawyers, and yet their careers as attorneys have tended to receive scant attention when compared to their political lives, even though the training and activity of these men as lawyers often contributed deeply to their views on American institutions. America's Lawyer-Presidents, which is the work of an impressive assembly of respected scholars, is lucid, informative, and highly engaging. The book provides intriguing biographical perspectives on the professional lives of a number of our most influential citizens, and also demonstrates yet again the profound relationship between the development of American law and our democracy. -Scott Turow
Author Information
A lawyer and educator, Norman Gross is currently director of the ABA Museum of Law in Chicago. He formerly served as director of Entrepreneurial Projects for the ABA and headed its Division for Public Education. America's Lawyer Presidents is a co-publication with the American Bar Association Museum of Law. Individual chapters on the lawyer-Presidents have been written by professors, lawyers, and historians of the Presidency.
