Book Signing with Lincoln Historian
Guy Fraker December 8
Area Author’s Latest Work is a Guidebook
to the Eighth Circuit
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[December 02, 2017]
LINCOLN
- Author, lawyer, Lincoln scholar and former Lincoln College Trustee
Guy Fraker will be coming to the Lincoln Heritage Museum for a book
signing at 7 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 8.
Fraker’s latest work, Looking for Lincoln in
Illinois: A Guide to Lincoln’s Eighth Judicial Circuit, is the
first-ever guidebook to the circuit.
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Fraker’s
new book directs readers and travelers through the prairies to the
towns Lincoln visited regularly during his 23 years of practicing
law in the Eighth Judicial Circuit. Each spring and fall, Lincoln
traveled the circuit – more than 400 miles – representing clients
from all walks of life.
The book provides detailed travel directions, five route maps and
more than 100 images of the local people that Lincoln encountered
along the way.
As Lincoln’s stature as a lawyer grew, east central Illinois grew in
population and influence, and the Circuit provided Lincoln with
clients, friends, and associates who became part of the network that
ultimately elevated him to the presidency.
This guidebook features Illinois courthouses, Looking for Lincoln
wayside exhibits, and other Lincoln points of interest. Fraker takes
travelers down the quiet country roads that gave Lincoln time to
read and think; and to the locations where Lincoln’s broad range of
cases expanded his sense of the economic and social forces changing
the nation.
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The book
is published by Southern Illinois University Press, which also
published Fraker’s, Lincoln’s Ladder to the Presidency: The Eighth
Judicial Circuit.
Fraker, a retired attorney from Bloomington, has also had a
number of historical articles published, including in the Journal of the Abraham
Lincoln Association, Illinois Heritage, the Bloomington Pantagraph, and the
Champaign News Gazette. He was a consultant for the WILL-TV documentary Lincoln,
Prelude to the Presidency, and is co-curator of Prologue to the Presidency:
Abraham Lincoln on the Eighth Judicial Circuit, an exhibit on permanent display
at the David Davis Mansion in Bloomington.
[Mark Gordon
Public Relations and Media Manager
Lincoln College]
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