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Lincoln's Ladder To The Presidency
Guy C. Fraker
The Eighth Judicial Circuit
Southern Illinois University Press
November 2012
On Sale: October 26, 2012
352 pages
ISBN: 0809332019
EAN: 9780809332014
Kindle: B00AH8U4HY
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction
Throughout his twenty-three-year legal career, Abraham
Lincoln spent nearly as much time on the road as an attorney
for the Eighth Judicial Circuit as he did in his hometown of
Springfield, Illinois. Yet most historians gloss over the
time and instead have Lincoln emerge fully formed as a
skillful politician in 1858. In this innovative volume, Guy
C. Fraker provides the first-ever study of Lincoln’s
professional and personal home away from home and
demonstrates how the Eighth Judicial Circuit and its people
propelled Lincoln to the presidency. Each spring and fall, Lincoln traveled to as many as
fourteen county seats in the Eighth Judicial Circuit to
appear in consecutive court sessions over a ten- to
twelve-week period. Fraker describes the people and
counties that Lincoln encountered, discusses key cases
Lincoln handled, and introduces the important friends he
made, friends who eventually formed the team that executed
Lincoln’s nomination strategy at the Chicago Republican
Convention in 1860 and won him the presidential nomination. As Fraker shows, the Eighth Judicial Circuit provided the
perfect setting for the growth and ascension of Lincoln. A
complete portrait of the sixteenth president depends on a
full understanding of his experience on the circuit, and
Lincoln’s Ladder to the Presidency provides that
understanding as well as a fresh perspective on the
much-studied figure, thus deepening our understanding of the
roots of his political influence and acumen.
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