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050	0	4	_aKF368 _b.L563 2012
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100	1		_aFraker, Guy C., _d1938- _e1
245	1	0	_aLincoln's ladder to the presidency : _bthe eighth judicial circuit / _cGuy C. Fraker ; with a foreword by Michael Burlingame.
260			_aCarbondale : _bSouthern Illinois University Press, _c(c)2012.
300			_a1 online resource
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338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
340			_2rdacc _0http://rdaregistry.info/termList/RDAColourContent/1003
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505	0	0	_aA new country -- _tAs happy as he could be -- _tPurely and entirely a case lawyer -- _tSangamon, Tazewell, Woodford -- _tMclean, Livingston, Logan, Dewitt -- _tPiatt, Champagne, Vermilion -- _tEdgar, Shelby, Moultrie, Macon, Christian, Menard, Mason -- _tThe 1840s and the early 1850s -- _tThe awakenment -- _tThe repeal ... aroused me again -- _tThe tall sucker and the little giant -- _tA little sketch -- _tNo stone unturned -- _tWe saw him no more.
520	0		_aThroughout his twenty-three-year legal career, Abraham Lincoln spent nearly as much time on the road as an attorney for the Eighth Judicial Circuit as he did in his hometown of Springfield, Illinois. Yet most historians gloss over the time and instead have Lincoln emerge fully formed as a skillful politician in 1858. In this innovative volume, Guy C. Fraker provides the first-ever study of Lincoln's professional and personal home away from home and demonstrates how the Eighth Judicial Circuit and its people propelled Lincoln to the presidency. Each spring and fall, Lincoln traveled to as many as fourteen county seats in the Eighth Judicial Circuit to appear in consecutive court sessions over a ten- to twelve-week period. Fraker describes the people and counties that Lincoln encountered, discusses key cases Lincoln handled, and introduces the important friends he made, friends who eventually formed the team that executed Lincoln's nomination strategy at the Chicago Republican Convention in 1860 and won him the presidential nomination. As Fraker shows, the Eighth Judicial Circuit provided the perfect setting for the growth and ascension of Lincoln. A complete portrait of the sixteenth president depends on a full understanding of his experience on the circuit, and Lincoln's Ladder to the Presidency provides that understanding as well as a fresh perspective on the much-studied figure, thus deepening our understanding of the roots of his political influence and acumen.
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600	1	0	_aLincoln, Abraham, _d1809-1865.
610	1	0	_aIllinois. _bCircuit Court (8th Circuit) _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aLaw _zIllinois _zDownstate Illinois _xHistory _y19th century.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=501009&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell