it started when my co-author david fisher approached me. i did not know him well. he said to me there is this amazing story out there of abraham lincoln in the final case he ever argued. there is a transcript of the trial. it is the only transcript that exists of a case lincoln argued. he said do you want to join me in writing a book about this case? i did not believe there was this great lincoln case with a transcript out there no one knew about. he was right. the transcript had only been found in the 1980 s. there had been no serious book written about it. we joined together in this effort. it led us on this journey where we would look for great cases with transcripts of the actual trial involving well-known people. presidents of the u.s. or former presidents, cases that had largely been forgotten to u.s. history. that is how it all started. we continued to mine for those great cases with a transcript that had been lost to history. it was in 2018 that lincoln s last tri
it started when my co-author david fisher approached me. i did not know him well. he said to me there is this amazing story out there of abraham lincoln in the final case he ever argued. there is a transcript of the trial. it is the only transcript that exists of a case lincoln argued. he said do you want to join me in writing a book about this case? i did not believe there was this great lincoln case with a transcript out there no one knew about. he was right. the transcript had only been found in the 1980 s. there had been no serious book written about it. we joined together in this effort. it led us on this journey where we would look for great cases with transcripts of the actual trial involving well-known people. presidents of the u.s. or former presidents, cases that had largely been forgotten to u.s. history. that is how it all started. we continued to mine for those great cases with a transcript that had been lost to history. it was in 2018 that lincoln s last tri
it started when my co-author david fisher approached me. i did not know him well. he said to me there is this amazing story out there of abraham lincoln in the final case he ever argued. there is a transcript of the trial. it is the only transcript that exists of a case lincoln argued. he said do you want to join me in writing a book about this case? i did not believe there was this great lincoln case with a transcript out there no one knew about. he was right. the transcript had only been found in the 1980 s. there had been no serious book written about it. we joined together in this effort. it led us on this journey where we would look for great cases with transcripts of the actual trial involving well-known people. presidents of the u.s. or former presidents, cases that had largely been forgotten to u.s. history. that is how it all started. we continued to mine for those great cases with a transcript that had been lost to history. it was in 2018 that lincoln s last tri