TY - BOOK AU - Carrington,Paul D. TI - American lawyers: public servants and the development of a nation SN - 9781614383024 (print : alk. paper) AV - KF 297 .C37 2012 U1 - 340.0973 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Chicago, Ill. PB - American Bar Association KW - Practice of law KW - United States KW - History KW - Local KW - Lawyers N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 ER -