Author: Abraham LincolnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Campaign debates
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Political Debates Between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas in the Celebrated Campaign of 1858 in Illinois
Author: Abraham LincolnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Campaign debates
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
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.
The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln: 1858-1860
Author: Abraham LincolnPublisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
The collected letters, speeches, etc. written by Abraham Lincoln.
Speech of Senator Douglas, of Illinois Against the Admission of Kansas Under the Lecompton Constitution
Author: Stephen Arnold DouglasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kansas
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Political Debates Between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas
Author: Abraham LincolnPublisher: Cleveland : A. H. Clark Company
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
The Impending Crisis of the South
Author: Hinton Rowan HelperPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382319578
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1859. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Speech of Senator Douglas, of Illinois Against the Admission of Kansas Under the Lecompton Constitution
Author: Stephen a (Stephen Arnold) DouglasPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781014988645
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
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The Life of Abraham Lincoln
Author: Henry KetchamPublisher:
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Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
"In his introduction to The Life of Abraham Lincoln, Henry Ketcham notes that there has been so much written about Lincoln that the legend has begun to obscure, if not to efface, the man. In this biography the single purpose has been to present the living man with such distinctness of outline that the reader may have a sort of feeling of being acquainted with him. Ketcham's clearly-written, unadorned account of Lincoln's life achieves its stated purpose, never removing its focus from the man who became the 16th President of the United States and led the nation through some of its most turbulent and difficult times."--Amazon.com
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
Book Description
Speech of Senator Douglas, of Illinois, Against the Admission of Kansas Under the Lecompton Constitution
Author: Stephen Arnold DouglasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kansas
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description