Lincoln's last trial : the murder case that propelled him to the presidency

Abrams, Dan, 1966- author, narrator.

DAISY Sound Recording 2018

At the end of the summer of 1859, twenty-two-year-old Peachy Quinn Harrison went on trial for murder in Springfield, Illinois. Abraham Lincoln was hired to defend him. This was to be his last great case as a lawyer. The case posed painful personal challenges for Lincoln. The murder victim had trained for the law in his office, and Lincoln had been his friend and his mentor. His accused killer, the young man Lincoln would defend, was the son of a...

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ISBN:

9780616995952
0616995954

Edition:

DAISY edition
Computer data (45 files : 124 MB)

Description:

1 DAISY disc (8 hr., 58 min.) : sound ; 12 cm
digital
4 3/4 in

Notes:

Access restricted to persons who are visually impaired or physically disabled and cannot use conventional print materials
Narrated by Dan Abrams and Adam Verner
Audio and text
Issued also in online resource format
DAISY reproduction. [Don Mills, Ontario, Canada] : Harlequin Audio, [2018]
Reproduced from: [Don Mills, Ontario, Canada] : Harlequin Audio, [2018]. 9781538516058
System requirements: IBM PC or compatible; double speed or faster CD-ROM drive; sound card and sound output device; DAISY playback software or DAISY talking book player. Also plays in CD-MP3 player or computer with MP3-capable software
Digital to DAISY
DAISY 2.02 standard; MP3 compression at 32 kbps
Studio original

Control Number:

3121468

Other Authors:

Centre for Equitable Library Access (Canada)
Fisher, David, 1946- author

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