Brian McGinty, Author . Harvard Univ. $27.95 (375p) ISBN 978-0-674-02655-1
McGinty (The Oatman Massacre: A Tale of Desert Captivity and Survival) offers a lucid review of the major Civil War Supreme Court cases. The Civil War, as McGinty explains, was a struggle over constitutional interpretation: did Lincoln have the...
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Brian McGinty, Author . Harvard Univ. $27.95 (350p) ISBN 978-0-674-03517-1
You'd think little new could be said about one of the most famous trials in American history. But McGinty (Lincoln and the Court
) comes to his work as attorney as well as historian. The result is a fresh perspective on the trial of John Brown,
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Brian McGinty. Norton/Liveright, $26.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-87140-784-9
Despite a subtitle that suggests excessive hype, McGinty (Lincoln and the Court) makes good on his promise to articulate why a now obscure 1857 trial had much broader significance than one would expect of legal battle over transportation. What came...
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Brian McGinty. Liveright, $26.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-63149-129-0
Attorney McGinty (Lincoln’s Greatest Case) unsuccessfully attempts to add heft and tension to a little-known Civil War episode of courage on the high seas. He argues that William Tillman, a free black man from the slave state of Delaware, deserves...
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