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Books about Lincoln's Legal Career

An Honest Calling: The Law Practice of Abraham Lincoln Lincoln's nearly 25-year legal career has been the subject of intense research since the inception of the highly regarded Lincoln Legal Papers project. Author Mark E. Steiner, a law professor and former Legal Papers scholar, has distilled the essence of that practice into this useful, up-to-date survey, published by Northern Illinois University Press in 2006. Hardcover Edition

Bannister, Dan W. Lincoln and the Illinois Supreme Court. Springfield, Illinois, 1994.

Dirck, Brian. Lincoln the Lawyer. University of Illinois Press, 2007.

Donald, David Herbert. Lincoln's Herndon. DaCapo, 1989.

Duff, John J. A. Lincoln, Prairie Lawyer. New York: Rinehart & Co., 1960.

Frank, John P. Lincoln as a Lawyer. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1961.

Hill, Frederick T. Lincoln the Lawyer. Fred B. Rothman & Co., 1986.

Matthews, Elizabeth W. Lincoln as a Lawyer: An Annotated Bibliography. Southern Illinois University Press, 1991.

Simon, James F. Lincoln and Chief Justice Taney: Slavery, Secession, and the President's War Powers. Simon & Schuster, 2006.

Spiegel, Allen D. A. Lincoln, Esquire: A Shrewd, Sophisticated Lawyer in His Time. Mercer University Press, April 2002.

Steiner, Mark E. An Honest Calling: The Law Practice of Abraham Lincoln. Northern Illinois University Press, 2006.

Stowell, Daniel W. In Tender Consideration: Women, Families, and the Law in Abraham Lincoln's Illinois. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002.

Townsend, William H. Lincoln the Litigant. Lawbook Exchange, 2000.

Walsh, John Evangelist. Moonlight: Abraham Lincoln and the Almanac Trial. St. Martin's Press, 2000.

Whitney, Henry C. Life on the Circuit with Lincoln. Caldwell, Idaho: The Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1940.

Whitney, Henry C. Life on the Circuit with Lincoln. Lawbook Exchange, 2001 reissue.

Woldman, Albert A. Lawyer Lincoln. Boston and New York: Little, Brown, and Co., 1937.

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