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The long pursuit : Abraham Lincoln's thirty-year struggle with Stephen Douglas for the heart and soul of America
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Documents the long-term political rivalry between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas from a human standpoint, offering insight into how their personal animosity toward one another impacted such hi...
Documents the long-term political rivalry between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas from a human standpoint, offering insight into how their personal animosity toward one another impacted such historical events as the Civil War.
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- Creator
- Roy Morris, Jr
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First edition
- [Washington, D.C.] : Smithsonian Books ; New York : Collins, [2008]
- ©2008
- Physical Details
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- xiv, 254 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780060852092, 0060852097
- OCLC
- ocn154308779
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-241) and index.
- The paradise of the world -- Whigs and polkats -- A hell of a storm -- Defiant recreancy -- Thunder tones -- Gentlemen of the South, you mistake us -- The rush of a great wind -- The prairies are on fire -- We must not be enemies
Subjects
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Adversaries.
- Douglas, Stephen A. (Stephen Arnold), 1813-1861.
- United States. Congress. House -- Biography.
- United States. Congress. Senate -- Biography.
- Legislators -- United States -- Biography.
- Legislators -- Illinois -- Biography.
- Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858.
- Illinois -- Politics and government -- To 1865.
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1815-1861.