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Book Review


Lincoln the Lawyer. By Brian Dirck. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. xvi, 228 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-252-03181-6.)
Abraham Lincoln lived a dual life. He was both a lawyer and a politician. Brian Dirck's Lincoln the Lawyer (and Mark E. Steiner's An Honest Calling [2006]) benefited from both the Lincoln Legal Papers Project, which has assembled more than five thousand cases in which Lincoln was involved, and from Dirck's previous work, Lincoln and Davis: Imagining America, 1809–1865 (2001). His new book places Lincoln's legal practice in a comparative perspective with that of other practicing attorneys from the mid-nineteenth century. Though the focus is on Lincoln's law practice, the author's objectivity allows readers to draw their own conclusions. . . .
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