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Book Review: Legal Papers Of Andrew Jackson, Walter F. Pratt, Jr. Apr 1988

Book Review: Legal Papers Of Andrew Jackson, Walter F. Pratt, Jr.

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The Legal Papers of Andrew Jackson is a handsomely edited book and a credit both to its editors and its publisher." James W. Ely, Jr. and Theodore Brown, Jr. have done an impressive job of supplementing the limited manuscript record with information about the attorneys, the litigants, and the issues involved in each of the selected cases.' In fact,the additions are so substantial that the title is somewhat misleading:this is really a carefully documented account of the history of law in central Tennessee between 1787 and 1804. The result is a valuable addition to the emerging history of law in …