Ebook {Epub PDF} Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates That Defined America by Allen C. Guelzo

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 bltadwin.rued on: Janu. Allen C. Guelzo, Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates that Defined America (New York: Simon Schuster, ), Body Summary: By the time [Douglas] arrived in Springfield (in the middle of another of that summer’s drenching rains), he was unblushingly fondling every white racist prejudice he could summon and gleefully painting the bull’s-eye of “Negro equality” all over Lincoln’s back. Guelzo, Allen C. Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates that Defined America. New York: Simon Schuster, Pp. xxvii, In their sesquicentennial year, the Lincoln-Douglas Debates are the subject of a new book by well-known Lincoln scholar Allen C. Guelzo. Having previously explored Lincoln's role as a "redeemer President" and having closely Author: David Zarefsky.

No Lincoln library can afford to be without it; no one with even a passing interest in the history of American politics can afford not to read it."--Allen C. Guelzo, author of Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates That Defined America. Get this from a library! Lincoln and Douglas: the debates that defined America. [Allen C Guelzo] -- What 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 Lincoln. The debates, Mr. Guelzo repeatedly emphasizes, were only part of an often dirty political campaign, not a series of Socratic dialogues. "Far more Illinoisans heard Lincoln and Douglas on.

Allen C. Guelzo, Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates that Defined America (New York: Simon Schuster, ), Body Summary: By the time [Douglas] arrived in Springfield (in the middle of another of that summer’s drenching rains), he was unblushingly fondling every white racist prejudice he could summon and gleefully painting the bull’s-eye of “Negro equality” all over Lincoln’s back. 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?. 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.