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03477aam a2200553 i 4500 001 A32B346CFFE911EBB6EAFDEE22ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210818010020 008 200324t20212021ctuaf b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020013519 020 $a 1493056336 020 $a 9781493056330 035 $a (OCoLC)1149336891 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d YDX $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d BDX $d GWL $d OCLCO $d IaU-L $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us-ny $a n-us-ny 050 4 $a KF355.N4 $b L36 2021 050 00 $a KF371 $b .L36 2021 082 00 $a 338.7/61340097471 $2 23 100 1 $a Lambert, Jeremiah D., $d 1934- $e author. 245 14 $a The anointed : $b New York's white-shoe law firms : how they started, how they grew, and how they ran the country / $c Jeremiah D. Lambert and Geoffrey S. Stewart. 264 1 $a Guilford, Connecticut : $b Lyons Press, $c [2021] 300 $a vi, 229 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-215) and index. 505 0 $a The Past Remembered -- An Ancient Rivalry -- "Morgan's Attorney General" -- Railroads & Railroad Reorganizations -- Age of Trusts & The Progressive Era -- William Nelson Cromwell and The Panama Canal -- Sullivan & Cromwell : an International Law Firm -- The Cravath System and Cravath the Man -- Early Cravath Alumni -- Robert Swaine and Cravath's Reorganization Practice -- The Creation of Davis Polk & Wardwell -- John W. Davis's Law Firm -- Sullivan & Cromwell and Opportunity in the Aftermath of War -- The Advent of Regulation -- Fighting the New Deal -- The Dulles Brothers and the Postwar World -- Tradition and Reform at Davis Polk -- Back to the Future. 520 $a "The story of how and why such powerhouse Wall Street law firms as Cravath, Swaine & Moore, Davis Polk & Wardwell, and Sullivan & Cromwell grew from nineteenth-century entrepreneurial origins into icons of institutional law practice, and how, as white-shoe bastions with the social standards of an exclusive gentleman's club, they promoted the values of an East Coast elite"-- $c Provided by the publisher. 650 0 $a Law firms $z New York $z New York $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Lawyers $z New York $z New York $v Biography. 650 0 $a Law $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 610 20 $a Davis, Polk & Wardwell $x History $y 20th century. 610 20 $a Sullivan & Cromwell $x History $y 20th century. 610 20 $a Cravath, Swaine & Moore $x History $y 20th century. 610 27 $a Cravath, Swaine & Moore. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00662142 610 27 $a Davis, Polk & Wardwell. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00742383 610 27 $a Sullivan & Cromwell. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00564627 650 7 $a Law firms. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00993996 650 7 $a Lawyers. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00994346 650 7 $a Law. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00993678 651 7 $a New York (State) $z New York. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204333 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919896 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 700 1 $a Stewart, Geoffrey S., $e author. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Lambert, Jeremiah D., 1934- $t Anointed $d Guilford, Connecticut : Lyons Press, 2020 $z 9781493056347 $w (DLC) 2020013520 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220526013544.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A32B346CFFE911EBB6EAFDEE22ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search