Uncivil Warriors: The Lawyers' Civil War

ISBN-13: 9780190851767 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 240 str.

Peter Hoffer

Opis

Through a series of engaging portraits of the actors involved, Uncivil Warriors shows show that a central contributing factor to the war's legalistic character was the influence of the lawyers-making ours a civil war by lawyers, of lawyers, and in the end, for lawyers.

Recenzje

Hoffer's explication of the legal conflicts is remarkably clear and perceptive, both in the details of the individual issues and in their significance to a contemporary understanding of what the war was about and what the two sides were fighting for. He raises, and then largely answers, questions that even many Civil War buffs have likely never considered, thus providing a rare fresh approach to a conflict that has been exhaustively surveyed. A worthy addition to the thinking person's Civil War library

O autorze

Peter Charles Hoffer is Professor of History, University of Georgia; he is the author of many books, including Cry Liberty and The Federal Courts.