MARC Record from Library of Congress

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050 00 $aE457.4$b.G84 2008
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100 1 $aGuelzo, Allen C.
245 10 $aLincoln and Douglas :$bthe debates that defined America /$cAllen C. Guelzo.
250 $a1st Simon & Schuster harcover ed.
260 $aNew York :$bSimon & Schuster,$c2008.
300 $axxvii, 383 p., [8] p. of plates :$bill., maps ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 315-364) and index.
520 $aWhat carried this one-term congressman from obscurity to fame was his Senate campaign against the country's most formidable politician, Stephen A. Douglas, in the summer and fall of 1858. Lincoln challenged Douglas directly in one of his greatest speeches--"A house divided against itself cannot stand"--and confronted Douglas on the questions of slavery and the inviolability of the Union in seven fierce debates. Of course, the great issue was slavery. Douglas was the champion of letting states and territories decide for themselves whether to legalize slavery. Lincoln drew a moral line, arguing that no majority could ever make slavery right. Lincoln lost that Senate race to Douglas, though he came close to toppling the "Little Giant," but he emerged a predominant national figure. Guelzo's book brings alive their debates and this whole year of campaigns, and underscores their centrality in the greatest conflict in American history.--From publisher description.
505 0 $aIntroduction: From Lincoln and Douglas to Nixon and Kennedy -- The least man I ever saw -- Take care of your old Whigs -- A David greater than Goliath -- For God's sake, Linder, come up -- In the face of the nation -- The same tyrannical principle -- Epilogue: One supreme issue.
650 0 $aLincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858.
600 10 $aLincoln, Abraham,$d1809-1865$xPolitical and social views.
600 10 $aDouglas, Stephen Arnold,$d1813-1861$xPolitical and social views.
651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1857-1861.
651 0 $aIllinois$xPolitics and government$yTo 1865.