public servants and the development of a nation Carrington, Paul D. creator text bibliography ilu Chicago, Ill American Bar Association c2012 2012 monographic eng

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xvi, 921 p. ill., ports. 25 cm. 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. Paul Carrington. Includes bibliographical references and index. Practice of law United States History Lawyers United States History KF 297 .C37 2012 340.0973 9781614383024 (print : alk. paper) 1614383022 (print : alk. paper) 2012024111 PUCPR 120613 20160527190209.0 309954