The Steel Bar:
Pittsburgh Lawyers
and the Making of America
The definitive history of the legal profession in Pittsburgh, THE STEEL BAR examines Pittsburgh’s role in the development of American democratic and commercial institutions and how its lawyers helped to shape American history in significant ways.
“Ron Schuler’s THE STEEL BAR is a magnificent tour-de-force: It weaves together history, law and powerful story-telling to produce a dramatic, readable account of the people and unexpected forces that shaped our nation’s legal system. This book belongs on the shelf of any serious student of law, history, and the role played by the bench and bar in forging America’s remarkable destiny.”
– Ken Gormley,
New York Times Bestselling author and President, Duquesne University
Angeleños:
L.A.’s Golden Age
(a novel)
A grandson of Mexican immigrants, Ron Schuler draws deeply upon his family background in his first novel to tell a fictionalized tale of two families who arrive in East Los Angeles in 1919. A descendant of both families—half-Mexican, half-Anglo—returns to the West Coast and searches for his roots amid the Golden Age of L.A. itself. In the process, he uncovers tragic secrets that were never meant to be exposed and discovers the extent to which identities can be fabricated and reimagined in a city in which image is everything, and truth is ephemeral.
“Lush but tightly-wrought prose reminiscent of Raymond Chandler and Gabriel García Márquez … a gift for any reader interested in that most essential human quest – how we can understand our lives through the lives and hearts of those who came before us.”
– Lori Jakiela, author of Belief Is Its Own Kind of Truth, Maybe
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- Schuler Interviewed on 'TechVibe Radio' about 'The Steel Bar'Ron Schuler, author of THE STEEL BAR: PITTSBURGH LAWYERS AND THE MAKING OF AMERICA, talked with TechVibe Radio hosts Audrey Russo and Jonathan Kersting about THE STEEL BAR and his work-in-progress, 7 BALLPARKS IN PITTSBURGH.Kersting and Russo talked with Schuler about how Pittsburgh has been at the center of so many important issues in American history, from the legitimacy of… Read more »
- Caruso, Bender Win Gold Medal for Angeleños CoverMarquez Press is proud to announce that Nick Caruso and Mark Bender have won an Independent Publishers Gold Medal for their work on the cover for Ron Schuler's novel Angeleños: L.A.'s Golden Age.Winning in the category of "Fiction - Cover Design," Caruso's audacious front cover design features sunset-infused, vertically stacked text, layered into an Art-Deco-inspired scene illustrated by Bender—a visual… Read more »
- Schuler Elected Fellow of American Bar FoundationRon Schuler, lawyer and author, has been elected a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation (ABF).Membership in the ABF is limited to one percent of lawyers licensed to practice in each jurisdiction. Members are nominated by their peers and selected by the ABF Board.The ABF is a global honorary society that recognizes attorneys, judges, law faculty and legal scholars whose… Read more »