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03356aim a22004215a 4500 001 D74FC5C8FD1211E892ED091697128E48 003 SILO 005 20181211010139 006 m o h 007 sz zunnnnnuned 007 cr nnannnuuuua 008 180608s2018 xxunnn es z n eng d 020 $a 1488204594 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 020 $a 9781488204593 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 028 42 $a MWT12064343 040 $a Midwest $e rda $d SILO 082 04 $a 973.7092 $2 22 100 1 $a Abrams, Dan, $d 1966- $e narrator. $e narrator. 245 10 $a Lincoln's last trial : $b the murder case that propelled him to the presidency $h [electronic resource] / $c Dan Abrams and David Fisher. 250 $a Unabridged. 260 $a [United States] : $b Harlequin Enterprises, Limited, $c 2018. 300 $a 1 online resource (1 audio file (8hr., 58 min.)) : $b digital. 506 $a Digital content provided by hoopla. 511 0 $a Read by Dan Abrams and Adam Verner. 520 $a 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, who had been involved in more than three thousand cases-including more than twenty-five murder trials-during his two-decades-long career, was hired to defend him. This was to be his last great case as a lawyer. What normally would have been a local case took on momentous meaning. Lincoln's debates with Senator Stephen Douglas the previous fall had gained him a national following, transforming the little-known, self-taught lawyer into a respected politician. He was being urged to make a dark-horse run for the presidency in 1860. Taking this case involved great risk. His reputation was untarnished, but should he lose this trial, should Harrison be convicted of murder, the spotlight now focused so brightly on him might be dimmed. He had won his most recent murder trial with a daring and dramatic maneuver that had become a local legend, but another had ended with his client dangling from the end of a rope. The case posed painful personal challenges for Lincoln. The murder victim had trained for the law in his office, and Lincoln had been his friend and his mentor. His accused killer, the young man Lincoln would defend, was the son of a close friend and loyal supporter. And to win this trial he would have to form an unholy allegiance with a longtime enemy, a revivalist preacher he had twice run against for political office-and who had bitterly slandered Lincoln as an "infideltoo lacking in faith" to be elected. 538 $a Mode of access: World Wide Web. 600 10 $a Lincoln, Abraham, $d 1809-1865 $x Career in law. 650 0 $a Trials (Murder) $z Springfield. $z Springfield. 650 0 $a Lawyers $z Illinois $v Biography. 650 0 $a Presidents $z United States $v Biography. 700 1 $a Fisher, David, $d 1946- $e author. 700 1 $a Verner, Adam, $e narrator. 710 2 $a hoopla digital. 856 40 $u https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/12064343 $y Instantly available on hoopla. $z Instantly available on hoopla. $3 URL 856 42 $z Cover image $u https://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/hpc_9781488204593_180.jpeg $y Cover image $3 URL 941 $a 1 952 $l EYPC755 $d 20240117010930.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D74FC5C8FD1211E892ED091697128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search