Author: Stephen Arnold DouglasPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 20
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Speech...on the Annexation of Texas Delivered in the House of Representatives Jan.,6, 1845
Author: Stephen Arnold DouglasPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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Lincoln and Douglas
Author: Allen C. GuelzoPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416564926
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 595
Book Description
From the two-time winner of the prestigious Lincoln Prize, a stirring and surprising account of the debates that made Lincoln a national figure and defined the slavery issue that would bring the country to war. In 1858, Abraham Lincoln was known as a successful Illinois lawyer who had achieved some prominence in state politics as a leader in the new Republican Party. Two years later, he was elected president and was on his way to becoming the greatest chief executive in American history. What carried this one-term congressman from obscurity to fame was the campaign he mounted for the United States Senate against the country’s most formidable politician, Stephen A. Douglas, in the summer and fall of 1858. As this brilliant narrative by the prize-winning Lincoln scholar Allen Guelzo dramatizes, Lincoln would emerge a predominant national figure, the leader of his party, the man who would bear the burden of the national confrontation. Lincoln lost that Senate race to Douglas, though he came close to toppling the “Little Giant,” whom almost everyone thought was unbeatable. Guelzo’s Lincoln and Douglas brings alive their debates and this whole year of campaigns and underscores their centrality in the greatest conflict in American history. The encounters between Lincoln and Douglas engage a key question in American political life: What is democracy's purpose? Is it to satisfy the desires of the majority? Or is it to achieve a just and moral public order? These were the real questions in 1858 that led to the Civil War. They remain questions for Americans today.
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Author: Stephen Arnold DouglasPublisher:
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Category : Mexican War, 1846-1848
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
Author: Frederick DouglassPublisher:
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Category : Abolitionists
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
Frederick Douglass recounts early years of abuse, his dramatic escape to the North and eventual freedom, abolitionist campaigns, and his crusade for full civil rights for former slaves. It is also the only of Douglass's autobiographies to discuss his life during and after the Civil War, including his encounters with American presidents such as Lincoln, Grant, and Garfield.
Collection of Speeches, Etc
Author: Stephen Arnold DouglasPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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Abraham Lincoln; a History, by John G. Nicolay and John Hay
Author: John George NicolayPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 544
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Frederick Douglass: the Colored Orator
Author: Frederic May HollandPublisher:
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Category : Abolitionists
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Political Debates Between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas in the Celebrated Campaign of 1858 in Illinois
Author: Abraham LincolnPublisher:
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Category : Campaign debates
Languages : en
Pages : 582
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Prominent Families of New York
Author: Lyman Horace WeeksPublisher:
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Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Autobiography of a Fugitive Negro
Author: Samuel R. WardPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1579105696
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description