From Publishers Marketplace: Author of Lincoln’s Greatest Case Brian McGinty's The Year of Archy Lee: California Gold, a Young Black Man’s Struggle for Freedom, and the Nation’s Epic March to Civil War, a narrative history of a young African-American man's legal fight for freedom in 1858 in California, which became the epicenter of a furious debate about slavery in California, a "free" state," and the nation at large, to Gene Brissie at Lyons Press, for publication in spring 2020, by Matthew Carnicelli at Carnicelli Literary Management (world).