Carrington, Paul D. <br/><br/>
American lawyers  public servants and the development of a nation 
Paul Carrington. 
 - Chicago, Ill.  American Bar Association  c2012. 
 - xvi, 921 p.  ill., ports.  25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> Founding lawyers : enthroning law as king --  Founding lawyers as partisans : making the judiciary --  Lawyers unifying a nation --  Lawyers for equal rights for all citizens --  Lawyers and the issue of slavery --  Lawyers at war with one another --  Lawyers reconstructing the South --  Lawyers and the "search for order" --  Lawyers competing for status : law as science? --  Lawyers organizing their profession --  Lawyers for social progress --  Exporting progress : lawyers as missionaries --  Progress on a national scale --  Progress interrupted --  Institutional reforms --  Lawyers in the New Deal --  Patriotic lawyers --  Lawyers seeking world peace --  The Cold War : lawyers and loyalties --  Civil rights lawyers --  Lawyers for civil liberties and "The Great Society" --  Private lawyers enforcing public law --  Lawyers as human capitalists --  Lawyers deterring public disorder --  Lawyers in disorder : Watergate --  New law governing lawyers and legal institutions. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781614383024 (print : alk. paper) 1614383022 (print : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2012024111 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Practice of law--History.--United States<br/>Lawyers--History.--United States
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>KF 297  / .C37 2012 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>340.0973