Lincoln's Greatest Case: The River, the Bridge, and the Making of America by Brian McGinty

Lincoln's Greatest Case: The River, the Bridge, and the Making of America

Brian McGinty

272 pages • first pub 2015 (view editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective slow-paced
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In the early hours of May 6, 1856, the steamboat Effie Afton barreled into a pillar of the Rock Island Bridge—the first railroad bridge ever to span the Mississippi River. Soon after, the newly constructed vessel, crowded with passengers and lives...

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