Lincoln's Greatest Case

Lincoln's Greatest Case

By Brian McGinty
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“A lively account of this navigational dispute and its central role in America’s economic and political development… Lincoln’s Greatest Case convincingly shows that 1857 was a watershed year for the moral and political questions surrounding slavery’s expansion to the west…The book is also a case study of discomfort with new technology—and the futility of using a tort suit to prevent the adoption of inevitable innovation.”

Wall Street Journal

Lincoln scholar Brian McGinty paints history on a grand scale as he re-creates a legal case that changed the face of a nation. Before becoming president, Abraham Lincoln successfully argued a trial pitting railroad vs. steamboat. In the course of this untold story, listeners follow the creation of a transnational railroad while witnessing the future president's ascension to the national stage.