The New High Priests: Lawyers in Post-Civil War America

by Gerard W. Gawalt

Gerard W. Gawalt has collected essays that explore the critical period in the development of the legal profession from 1865 to 1900, when law replaced religion as the controlling element in American society and lawyers clearly established themselves as the formulators, advocates, and arbiters of the law. The authors of these essays explore the extent of the legal profession's involvement in the growth of industrial America, focusing on the state of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313240213
• ISBN13: 9780313240218
• Release Date: June 1984
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"