Download or read book A Voter s Version of the Life and Character of Stephen Arnold Douglas written by Robert Bruce Warden and published by University of Michigan Library. This book was released on 1860 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Voter s Version of the Life and Character of Stephen A Douglas written by Robert B. Warden and published by . This book was released on with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lincoln and Douglas written by Allen C. Guelzo and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Stephen A Douglas Western Man written by Reg Ankrom and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-04-19 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It didn't take long for freshman Congressman Stephen A. Douglas to see the truth of Senator Thomas Hart Benton's warning: slavery attached itself to every measure that came before the U.S. Congress. Douglas wanted to expand the nation into an ocean-bound republic. Yet slavery and the violent conflicts it stirred always interfered, as it did in 1844 with his first bill to organize Nebraska. In 1848, when America acquired 550,000 square miles after the Mexican War, the fight began over whether the territory would be free or slave. Henry Clay, a slave owner who favored gradual emancipation, packaged territorial bills from Douglas's committee with four others. But Clay's "Omnibus Bill" failed. Exhausted, he left the Senate, leaving Douglas in control. Within two weeks, Douglas won passage of all eight bills, and President Millard Fillmore signed the Compromise of 1850. It was Douglas's greatest legislative achievement. This book, a sequel to the author's Stephen A. Douglas: The Political Apprenticeship, 1833-1843, fully details Douglas's early congressional career. The text chronicles how Douglas moved the issue of slavery from Congress to the ballot box.
Download or read book Lincoln s Campaign Biographies written by Thomas A. Horrocks and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2014-03-31 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1860 and 1864 presidential campaigns, Abraham Lincoln was the subject of over twenty campaign biographies. In this innovative study, Thomas A. Horrocks examines the role that these publications played in shaping an image of Lincoln that would resonate with voters and explores the vision of Lincoln that the biographies crafted, the changes in this vision over the course of four years, and the impact of these works on the outcome of the elections. Horrocks investigates Lincoln’s campaign biographies within the context of the critical relationship between print and politics in nineteenth-century America and compares the works about Lincoln with other presidential campaign biographies of the era. Horrocks shows that more than most politicians of his day, Lincoln deeply appreciated and understood the influence and the power of the printed word. The 1860 campaign biographies introduced to America “Honest Abe, the Rail Splitter,” a trustworthy, rugged candidate who appealed to rural Americans. When Lincoln ran for reelection in 1864, the second round of campaign biographies complemented this earlier portrait of Lincoln with a new, paternal figure, “Father Abraham,” more appropriate for Americans enduring a bloody civil war. Closing with a consideration of the influence of these publications on Lincoln’s election and reelection, Lincoln’s Campaign Biographies provides a new perspective for those seeking a better understanding of the sixteenth president and two of the most critical elections in American history.
Download or read book A Voter s Version of the Life and Character of Stephen Arnold Douglas written by Robert Bruce Warden and published by University of Michigan Library. This book was released on 1860 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Classified Catalogue written by East St. Louis. Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biography by Americans 1658 1936 written by Edward H. O'Neill and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the most comprehensive bibliography of purely biographical material written by Americans. It covers every possible field of life but, by design, excludes autobiographies, diaries, and journals.
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Download or read book American Statesmen General index written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book General Index to the American Statesmen Series with a Selected Bibliography written by Theodore Clarke Smith and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stephen A Douglas and Antebellum Democracy written by Martin H. Quitt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-24 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thematic biography demonstrates how Stephen Douglas's path from a conflicted youth in Vermont to dim prospects in New York to overnight stardom in Illinois led to his identification with the Democratic Party and his belief that the federal government should respect the diversity of states and territories. His relationships with his mother, sister, teachers, brothers-in-law, other men and two wives are explored in depth. When he conducted the first cross-country campaign by a presidential candidate in American history, few among the hundreds of thousands that saw him in 1860 knew that his wife and he had just lost their infant daughter or that Douglas controlled a large Mississippi slave plantation. His story illuminates the gap between democracy then and today. The book draws on a variety of previously unexamined sources.
Download or read book The Bibliography of Vermont written by Marcus Davis Gilman and published by Burlington : Free Press association. This book was released on 1897 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Classified List written by Princeton University. Library and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Classed List written by Princeton University. Library and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Guide to the Study of American History written by Edward Channing and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
