Wicked Springfield: Crime, Corruption & Scandal During the Lincoln Era - Couverture souple

Holst, Erika

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1596299010 ISBN 13 : 9781596299016

Editeur : History Press, 2010

Synopsis

In the twenty-four years that Abraham Lincoln lived in Springfield, the city saw its share of crime, corruption and scandal, much of it at the hands of Lincoln's law clients and acquaintances. Erika Holst sheds light on these shady characters, from the man being sued for divorce who claimed that he caught his venereal disease from an outhouse to Governor William Bissell, whose near duel with Jefferson Davis almost made him ineligible to hold office. Learn what prompted a congressional candidate- in an election clerked by Lincoln- to shout down his accuser as some 'spindle-shanked, toad-eating, man-granny, who feeds the depraved appetites of his patrons with gossip and slander.' Read the true stories that fed those depraved appetites, drawn from the newspapers Lincoln read and the docket where he practiced law. In these pages, discover the wicked side of Lincoln's Springfield.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Erika Holst holds a master's degree from the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture. She has volunteered, interned and worked at museums and history projects throughout Illinois, including the David Davis Mansion State Historic Site in Bloomington, the McLean County Museum of History in Bloomington, the Cuneo Museum in Vernon Hills, Dickson Mounds Museum in Lewistown, the Papers of Abraham Lincoln, the Illinois State Museum and the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library in Springfield.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: History Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1596299010
• ISBN 13: 9781596299016
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 128
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