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Getting Right Without Lincoln
by Daniel W. Hamilton | 45 Tul. L. Rev. 715 (2011)
In this issue Brian McGinty’s, Lincoln and the Court, Stephen C. Ness’, Justice in Blue and Gray: A Legal History of the Civil War, and Lea VanderVelde’s Mrs. Dred Scott: A Life on Slavery’s Frontier, offer three mostly separate paths, and these books are exemplars of those different choices. (full article)