Journey back Inside The Blanket Fort as we talk with SIU Press author Guy Fraker about his book Lincoln's Ladder to the Presidency: The Eight Judicial Circuit, which recently made its debut in paperback.
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. 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 provided the perfect setting for the growth and ascension of Lincoln.
