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Summary: The true story of Abraham Lincoln's last murder trial, a case in which he had a deep personal involvement--and which played out in the nation's newspapers as he began his presidential campaign. At the end of the summer of 1859, twenty-two-year-old Peachy Quinn Harrison went on trial for murder in Springfield, Illinois. Abraham Lincoln, who had been involved in more than three thousand...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 ABRCopies Available at Peninsula
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Summary: Theodore Roosevelt, the boisterous and mostly beloved legendary American hero, had accused his former friend and ally, now turned rival William Barnes of political corruption. Furious, Barnes responded by suing Roosevelt for an enormous sum that could have financially devastated him. In May, 1915, more than fifty newspapers sent reporters to cover the trial. Accounts from inside and outside the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 345.73 ABRCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 345.73 ABRAbrams, Dan
Summary: History remembers John Adams as a Founding Father and our country's second president. But in the tense years before the American Revolution, he was still just a lawyer, fighting for justice in one of the most explosive murder trials of the era. On the night of March 5, 1770, shots were fired by British soldiers on the streets of Boston, killing five civilians. The Boston Massacre has often been...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press, with Harlequin Books 2020