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The Complete Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858

The Complete Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858

Angle, Paul M.
Lincoln, Abraham
Douglas, Stephen a.

Paperback

19th Century United States HistoryCivil War Period (1850-1877)

ISBN10: 0226020843
ISBN13: 9780226020846
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: May 28 1991
Pages: 470
Weight: 1.20
Height: 1.07 Width: 6.11 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
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.

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