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Moonlight by John Evangelist Walsh (2000, Hardcover, Illustrated)
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Author: John Evangelist Walsh
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication Date: 2000-06-03
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0312229224
ISBN-13: 9780312229221
Product ID: EPID1687257
Description: This history of an 1857 murder case in which Abraham Lincoln served as defense lawyer for the son of a childhood friend tells how, through his skills in cross-examination, Lincoln may have gotten a guilty man acquitted.
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| Synopsis This history of an 1857 murder case in which Abraham Lincoln served as defense lawyer for the son of a childhood friend tells how, through his skills in cross-examination, Lincoln may have gotten a guilty man acquitted.
Publisher's Note On Aug. 29, 1857, in the light of a three-quarter moon, James Metzger was savagely beaten by two assailants in a grove not far from his home. Two days later he died and his assailants, James Norris and William Armstrong, were arrested and charged with his murder. Norris was tried and convicted first. As William "Duff" Armstrong waited for his trial, his own father died. James Armstrong's deathbed wish was that Duff's mother, Hannah, engage the best lawyer possible to defend Duff. The best person Hannah could think of was a friend, a young lawyer from Springfield by the name of Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln took the case and with that begins one of the oddest journeys Lincoln took on his trek towards immortality. What really happened? How much did the moon reveal? What did Lincoln really know? Walsh makes a strong case for viewing Honest Abe in a different light in this tale of murder and moonlight. | See an error? Submit a change request | ||||||||||||||||||
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