The steel bar

Sinopse

The definitive history of Pittsburgh's legal profession, THE STEEL BAR examines the city's role in the development of U.S. democratic and commercial institutions and how its lawyers helped to shape U.S. history in significant ways; with snapshots of the city's lawyers grappling with nation-defining issues amid the development of the corporation, labor vs. management, the federal vs. the local, corruption and reform, and the decline and "renaissance" of a rust-belt city