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Excerpt from James Cope: The Confessions of an United States District Attorney Republican one had offered better chances, I should undoubtedly have sailed in on it. Principles did not trouble me, but I was a very popular man all the same; called every man who had his vote by his Christian name at election times; stood innumerable drinks, and was known as Good Old Jimmy to every saloon-keeper in Lodo. I think it was at the age of fifteen that I finally determined to be President of the United States, and with that end in view became omco-boy to Lodo's leading firm of attorneys. This was not my first employ ment, mind you; for I had previously put in one year on the cars running between Lodo and San Francisco, and another as a telegraph clerk. All legal gentlemen, who are not judges, are attorneys-at-law in California - that is, barristers who do their own soliciting; and in due time I became one also not speedily and with ease, but after an almost incredible amount of hard work, and many sleepless nights. It was eight years before I attained this grade, and during the whole of them I was working like a black, not for the Attorneyship only, but for the Presidency as well. There is little doubt of the fact that, at the age of twenty-four, I knew more about International law than any man in the State of California. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Marke, Julius J., Editor. A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York University With Selected Annotations. New York: The Law Center of New York University, 1953. xxxi, 1372 pp. Reprinted 1999 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. LCCN 99-19939. ISBN 1-886363-91-9. Cloth. $195. * Reprint of the massive, well-annotated catalogue compiled by the librarian of the School of Law at New York University. Classifies approximately 15,000 works excluding foreign law, by Sources of the Law, History of Law and its Institutions, Public and Private Law, Comparative Law, Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law, Political and Economic Theory, Trials, Biography, Law and Literature, Periodicals and Serials and Reference Material. With a thorough subject and author index. This reference volume will be of continuous value to the legal scholar and bibliographer, due not only to the works included but to the authoritative annotations, often citing more than one source. Besterman, A World Bibliography of Bibliographies 3461.