The Complete Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858
Abraham LincolnPublished1991
Pages423
Formatpaperback
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
&Abraham lincoln high school (new york, n.y.)[bunka culture camp]1. bodhidharma, 6th cent.--fiction. 2. buddhism--china--history--fiction. 3. hand-to-hand fighting, oriental--history--fiction.4. kung fu--history--fiction. 5. historical fiction. i. title1800 1899 < Historical Periods < Political & Historical Themes < Man & Society < Mankind1940 1949 < 1900 1949 < 1900 1999 < Historical Periods < Political & Historical Themes < Man & Society < Mankind
Synopsis
The Lincoln-Douglas debates remain our culture's model of what public political debate ought to be. This new edition of the complete transcripts of the debates and eyewitness interpretations of them (previously published under the title Created Equal?) includes a new Foreword by David Zarefsky.
Zarefsky analyzes the rhetoric of the speeches, showing how Lincoln and Douglas chose their arguments and initiated a debate that shook the nation. Their eloquent, statesmanlike discussion of the morality of slavery illustrates the masterful use of rhetorical strategies and tactics in the public forum: a form of discourse that has nearly disappeared from the political scene today.
Recommendations
Generating recommendations…
Our AI is preparing recommendations for The Complete Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858. This usually takes under a minute.
About Abraham Lincoln
A
Abraham Lincoln
1809–1865
Abraham Lincoln served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. As an outspoken opponent of the expansion of slavery in the United States, Lincoln won the Republican Party nomination in 1860 and was elected president later that year. - [*Wikipedia*][1] The Library of Congress has shared [lots of photographs of Abraham Lincoln][2] in the Flickr Commons. [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln [2]: http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/tags/abrahamlincoln/
View author page