Lincoln's Greatest Case: The River, The Bridge, and The Making of America Audiobook

Quotes

• “Sometimes, while the future seems to lie in the establishment of invisible connections, it can be rewarding to look to the past, when it was infrastructure that held the promise of unity. McGinty enlivens this history of pre–Civil War America.”

  — Chicago Tribune

• “McGinty makes good on his promise to articulate why a now obscure 1857 trial had much broader significance than one would expect of a legal battle over transportation…A masterful popular history that places its focal point in a richly detailed wider context and will get readers interested in Lincoln’s legal career.”

  — Publishers Weekly, starred review

• “McGinty provides valuable context unavailable anywhere else and a deep understanding of the dynamic and contested legal, commercial, and political world that informed Lincoln’s support for westward expansion and economic development, shaped his ideas on law, and honed his skills as a lawyer. McGinty’s book gives us the best accounting of Lincoln, the lawyer, to date. Highly recommended.”

  — Library Journal, starred review)

• “A fascinating study of the case that capped Lincoln’s career as a lawyer and fostered the creation of the vast railroad network that would bind the nation together.”

  — Richard Slotkin, author of The Long Road to Antietam