Lincoln's Last Trial: The Murder Case That Propelled Him to the Presidency by Dan Abrams, David Fisher

Lincoln's Last Trial: The Murder Case That Propelled Him to the Presidency

Dan Abrams, David Fisher

416 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction biography history true crime informative slow-paced
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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 was hired to defend him. This was to be his last great case as a lawyer. What normally would have been a...

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