The Freeport Debate and Its Centennial Commemoration
Title | The Freeport Debate and Its Centennial Commemoration PDF eBook |
Author | Lincoln-Douglas Society |
Publisher | |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 1959 |
Genre | Freeport (Ill.) |
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The Freeport Debate and Its Centennial Commemoration
Title | The Freeport Debate and Its Centennial Commemoration PDF eBook |
Author | Lincoln-Douglas Society (Freeport, Ill.). |
Publisher | |
Pages | 239 |
Release | 1959 |
Genre | Freeport (Ill.) |
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Centennial Commemoration of the Freeport Debate
Title | Centennial Commemoration of the Freeport Debate PDF eBook |
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Pages | |
Release | 1958 |
Genre | Freeport (Ill.) |
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Centennial Commemoration of the Freeport Debate, Abraham Lincoln - Stephen A. Douglas, 1858-1958, Stamp Ceremony, August 27, 1958, Freeport, Illinois
Title | Centennial Commemoration of the Freeport Debate, Abraham Lincoln - Stephen A. Douglas, 1858-1958, Stamp Ceremony, August 27, 1958, Freeport, Illinois PDF eBook |
Author | Lincoln-Douglas Society |
Publisher | |
Pages | 4 |
Release | 1958 |
Genre | Commemorative postage stamps |
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Freeport Debate Centennial
Title | Freeport Debate Centennial PDF eBook |
Author | Lincoln-Douglas Society (Freeport, Ill.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 116 |
Release | 1958 |
Genre | Freeport (Ill.) |
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The Lincoln-Douglas Debate at Freeport, Illinois, August 27, 1858. An Introduction to Its Commemoration and Re-appraisal. [By] Paul Crawford. Published by Northern Illinois University in Cooperation with the Lincoln-Douglas Society of Freeport, Illinois, in Connection with the Centennial Commemoration of an Historic Debate
Title | The Lincoln-Douglas Debate at Freeport, Illinois, August 27, 1858. An Introduction to Its Commemoration and Re-appraisal. [By] Paul Crawford. Published by Northern Illinois University in Cooperation with the Lincoln-Douglas Society of Freeport, Illinois, in Connection with the Centennial Commemoration of an Historic Debate PDF eBook |
Author | Northern Illinois University (DEKALB, Ill.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 9 |
Release | 1958 |
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Lincoln and Douglas
Title | Lincoln and Douglas PDF eBook |
Author | Allen C. Guelzo |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 597 |
Release | 2010-05-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1416564926 |
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.