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Article: An Honest Calling: The Law Practice of Abraham Lincoln.(Book review)
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- The Journal of Southern History
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- February 1, 2008
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An Honest Calling: The Law Practice of Abraham Lincoln. By Mark E. Steiner. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, c. 2006. Pp. x, 272. $42.00, ISBN 978-0-87580-358-6.)
Although Abraham Lincoln practiced law successfully in the courts of Illinois for almost twenty-five years, until recently historians and biographers have paid scant attention to the thousands of cases he argued. In part this neglect reflects the well-founded belief that Lincoln's lasting importance rests in politics, particularly in his heroic presidential labors during the Civil War. Would-be Lincoln investigators were further deterred from any extensive inquiry into the future president's ...