And Yet the Birds Still Sing

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The rich histories of federal prosecutors and their two-century contribution to the legal system in this country are a series of untold stories. Carving Out the Rule of Law tells one of these stories, the history of the U. S. Attorney's Office in Eastern Michigan from its humble beginnings on the Detroit frontier in 1815 to the modern law office of 2008. The book follows the attorneys traveling Indian trails to court by horseback, with saddlebags containing pleadings, all the way to their use of state of the art computers in the 21st Century. It chronicles, for the first time, the biographies of the fifty-one United States Attorneys, the historical contexts of their Offices, and some of the fascinating cases which have defined this legacy.