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Lincoln's Code will be released on July 02, 2013 in Trade Paperback
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Chapter 1 from Lincoln's CodeMar 31, 2013
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Lincoln's Code will be released on September 04, 2012 in Hardcover, eBook
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Lincoln's Code is now available in Hardcover, eBook
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Lincoln's CodeA Yale law professor recounts the groundbreaking history of the pioneering American role in establishing the modern laws of war.Read More
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Kansas City Star, April 15, 2013
...by Bernard Bailyn (Alfred A. Knopf), and “Lincoln’s Code: The Laws of War in American History,” by John Fabian Witt (Free Press). Biography or autobiography: “The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo,”...
Civil War Courier, March 22, 2013
...In his new book, “Lincoln’s Code: The Laws of War in American History” (Free Press, 2012), historian John Fabian Witt tells the hidden story of the laws of war in the first century of the United States and of the extraordinary code that emerged...
Seattle Times, November 19, 2012
...In "Lincoln's Code," writer and professor John Fabian Witt tells the story of Francis Lieber, the man who wrote the rules of war for Abraham Lincoln, and how those rules became the basis for modern laws governing...
Council On Foreign Relations, November 19, 2012
...creating the Arsenal of Democracy than the New Deal bureaucrats who usually get the credit. Yale law professor John Fabian Witt also looks at a less-examined aspect of military history: the development of the laws of war. In "Lincoln's Code" (Free...
Seattle Times, November 18, 2012
...In "Lincoln's Code," writer and professor John Fabian Witt tells the story of Francis Lieber, the man who wrote the rules of war for Abraham Lincoln, and how those rules became the basis for modern laws governing...
New York Times, October 10, 2012
...NEW HAVEN In 1754 George Washington, then an officer in the Virginia militia, found himself hotly debating charges that he had committed what today we would call a war crime. During a campaign against the French in the Ohio Valley, Washington was said to...
New York Times, September 28, 2012
...Pakistan has also been a debate about the international laws of war. But much of this law, as John Fabian Witt shows in his magnificent new book, was originally made in America. Abraham Lincolns administration published a new fighting code for Union...
Center for a New American Security, January 12, 2013
...find a framework to restrain it without compromising its obligation to prosecute and win an eminently just war. John Fabian Witt’s Lincoln’s Codeprovides a compelling account of the evolution of the laws of war in America, not simply within the...
Yale Daily News, December 7, 2012
...Yale Law School professors John Fabian Witt LAW ’99 and Akhil Reed Amar LAW ‘84 wrote books that The New York Times and the Washington Post, respectively, listed among the top books of 2012. The...
Yale Daily News, December 7, 2012
...250 passers-by took part in the effort. Hitting the books. Two recent releases by Yale Law School professors John Fabian Witt ’94 LAW ’99 GRD ’00 and Akhil Reed Amar ’80 LAW ’84 were named to the 2012 best books list of two major newspapers....
Seattle Times, November 19, 2012
...In "Lincoln's Code," writer and professor John Fabian Witt tells the story of Francis Lieber, the man who wrote the rules of war for Abraham Lincoln, and how those rules became the basis for modern laws governing...
Council On Foreign Relations, November 19, 2012
...creating the Arsenal of Democracy than the New Deal bureaucrats who usually get the credit. Yale law professor John Fabian Witt also looks at a less-examined aspect of military history: the development of the laws of war. In "Lincoln's Code" (Free...
Seattle Times, November 18, 2012
...In "Lincoln's Code," writer and professor John Fabian Witt tells the story of Francis Lieber, the man who wrote the rules of war for Abraham Lincoln, and how those rules became the basis for modern laws governing...
San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center, November 8, 2012
...cgi?station_name=accesssacramento&site=pro&tm=6524 great.speeches [at] yahoo.com Ta-Nehisi Coates, Senior Editor, The Atlantic Stephanie McCurry, Professor, University of Pennsylvania John Fabian Witt, Professor, Yale Law School Andrew...
