The Court Circles of the Republic
Author | : E.F. Mack, R.E. Ellet |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 590 |
Release | : 2020-09-22 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3752503572 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.
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Author | : E.F. Mack, R.E. Ellet |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 590 |
Release | : 2020-09-22 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3752503572 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.
Author | : Free Public Library (Worcester, Mass.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1416 |
Release | : 1884 |
Genre | : Catalogs, Dictionary |
ISBN | : |
Author | : R. S. O'Loughlin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1904 |
Genre | : Dressmaking |
ISBN | : |
Issue for Oct. 1894 has features articles on Mount Holyoke College and Millinery as an employment for women.
Author | : Elizabeth Urban Alexander |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2004-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807130249 |
The legal crusade of Myra Clark Gaines (1804?--1885) has all the trappings of classic melodrama -- a lost heir, a missing will, an illicit relationship, a questionable marriage, a bigamous husband, and a murder. For a half century the daughter of New Orleans millionaire Daniel Clark struggled to justify her claim to his enormous fortune in a case that captivated the nineteenth-century public. Elizabeth Urban Alexander taps voluminous court records and letters to unravel the twists and turns of Gaines's litigation and reveal the truth behind the mysterious saga of this notorious woman. Myra, the daughter of real estate heir Clark and Zulime Carrière, a beautiful young Frenchwoman, was raised by friends of Clark and kept ignorant of her real parentage until 1832, when she discovered her true lineage in letters among her foster father's papers. She thereupon returned to Louisiana with tales of a lost will and a secret marriage between Clark and Carrière and claimed to be Clark's missing heir. Was Myra the legitimate daughter of the prominent merchant or the "fruit of an adulterous union?" The courts would decide. The Great Gaines Case wound its tortuous path through the United States legal system from 1834 until 1891. It was considered by the U.S. Supreme Court seventeen times and pursued even after Gaines's death by lawyers trying to recoup fees. By courageously bringing her case to the courtroom and doggedly keeping it there, Alexander asserts, Gaines helped instigate a new type of family law that provided special protection of women, children, and marriages. Though Gaines never recovered more than a tiny fraction of the rumored millions, this riveting chronicle of her struggle for legitimacy and legacy as told by Elizabeth Urban Alexander is a gold mine for anyone interested in legal history, women's studies, or a good yarn superbly spun.
Author | : Stephen Breyer |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 1995-03-15 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780674028777 |
Breaking the Vicious Circle is a tour de force that should be read by everyone who is interested in improving our regulatory processes. Written by a highly respected federal judge, who obviously recognizes the necessity of regulation but perceives its failures and weaknesses as well, it pinpoints the most serious problems and offers a creative solution that would for the first time bring rationality to bear on the vital issue of priorities in our era of limited resources.
Author | : Edward Jewitt Wheeler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 690 |
Release | : 1905 |
Genre | : Literature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Rachel A. Shelden |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 146961085X |
Traditional portrayals of politicians in antebellum Washington, D.C., describe a violent and divisive society, full of angry debates and violent duels, a microcosm of the building animosity throughout the country. Yet, in Washington Brotherhood, Rachel Shelden paints a more nuanced portrait of Washington as a less fractious city with a vibrant social and cultural life. Politicians from different parties and sections of the country interacted in a variety of day-to-day activities outside traditional political spaces and came to know one another on a personal level. Shelden shows that this engagement by figures such as Stephen Douglas, John Crittenden, Abraham Lincoln, and Alexander Stephens had important consequences for how lawmakers dealt with the sectional disputes that bedeviled the country during the 1840s and 1850s--particularly disputes involving slavery in the territories. Shelden uses primary documents--from housing records to personal diaries--to reveal the ways in which this political sociability influenced how laws were made in the antebellum era. Ultimately, this Washington "bubble" explains why so many of these men were unprepared for secession and war when the winter of 1860-61 arrived.