Causes and Conflicts: The Centennial History of the Association of the Bar of NYC

by George Whitney Martin and George W. Martin

More than a century ago over 200 leading lawyers met in a schoolroom on Fifth Avenue and Twenty-Sixth Street to organize the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. They were hot with reform and with the sting of professional shame. Boss Tweed and his cronies were not only robbing the city's treasury, but, worse, were also corrupting the courts and judges.

Boss Tweed and his gang were routed but not without a long struggle and the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823217353
• ISBN13: 9780823217359
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 436 Pages
• Weight: 1.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.2"