Prairie Defender

2018 FAPA President’s book award medalist in the non-fiction adult, biography, and political/current events categories 2018 ISHS Annual Award Winner for a Scholarly Publication According to conventional wisdom, Abraham Lincoln spent most of his law career collecting debt and representing railroads, and this focus made him inept at defending clients in homicide cases. In this unprecedented study of Lincoln’s criminal cases, George Dekle disproves these popular notions, showing that Lincoln was fi