Author: Richard Henry DanaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Dana's Seaman's friend. Brown
Author: Richard Henry DanaDana's Seaman's friend
Author: Richard Henry DanaCaptain Nathaniel Brown Palmer
Author: John Randolph SpearsPublisher:
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Category : Clipper ships
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Richard Henry Dana, Jr. ... Speeches in Stirring Times, and Letters to a Son
Author: Richard Henry Dana (Jr.)Publisher:
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Category : Fugitive slaves
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
Dana's Seamen's Friend: Containing a Treatise on Practical Seamanship, with Plates
Author: James LeesSlavish Shore
Author: Jeffrey L. AmestoyPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674495322
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
In 1834 Harvard dropout Richard Henry Dana Jr. sailed to California as a common seaman. His account of the voyage, Two Years Before the Mast, quickly became an American classic. But literary acclaim could not erase the young lawyer’s memory of the brutal floggings he had witnessed aboard ship or undermine the vow he had made to combat injustice. In Slavish Shore, Jeffrey Amestoy tells the story of Dana’s unflagging determination to keep that vow in the face of nineteenth-century America’s most exclusive establishment: the Boston society in which he had been born and bred. The drama of Dana’s life arises from the unresolved tension between the Brahmin he was expected to be on shore and the man he had become at sea. Dana’s sense of justice made him a lawyer who championed sailors and slaves, and his extraordinary advocacy put him at the center of some of the most consequential cases in American history: defending fugitive slave Anthony Burns, justifying President Lincoln’s war powers before the Supreme Court, and prosecuting Confederate president Jefferson Davis for treason. Yet Dana’s own promising political career remained unfulfilled as he struggled to reconcile his rigorous conscience with his restless spirit in public controversy and private life. The first full-length biography of Dana in more than half a century, Slavish Shore reintroduces readers to one of America’s most zealous defenders of freedom and human dignity.
Speeches in Stirring Times; And, Letters to a Son
Author: Richard Henry Dana (Jr.)Publisher:
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Category : Fugitive slaves
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Speeches in Stirring Times
Author: Richard Henry Dana (Jr.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fugitive slaves
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
John Brown
Author: Jon SterngassPublisher: Infobase Learning
ISBN: 1438144261
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
A brief, illustrated biography of abolitionist John Brown, his efforts to destroy the institution of slavery, the raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia in 1859, and the role his cause played in the onset of the Civil War.
Great American Lawyers [2 volumes]
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Author: John R. VilePublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1576075958
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 850
Book Description
This two volume set offers unmatched insight into the lives and careers of 100 of America's most notable defense and prosecuting attorneys. Trial lawyers, noted one observer, are "the closest thing America has to the Knights of the Round Table." In this new two volume encyclopedia, which chronicles the lives and careers of America's 100 greatest trial lawyers, readers can explore the historic legal careers of extraordinary barristers like Thomas Jefferson, the young Virginia attorney who drafted the Declaration of Independence, and Daniel Webster, staunch defender of the union. Readers will also meet contemporary litigators like Lawrence Tribe, who led the fight against the tobacco industry; Marian Wright Edelman, a leading advocate for children's rights; Alan Dershowitz, renowned criminal appellate lawyer and public intellectual; and Johnnie Cochran, the defense attorney whose spectacular victory in the O. J. Simpson trial propelled him to superstardom. In the stories of these preeminent litigators, readers will discover not only what qualities make a great lawyer, but also how much we owe to those who have served as our legal advocates.