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• ISBN: 9780811703611
• ISBN: 0811703614
• Physical Description: xix, 412 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
• Edition: 1st edition
• Publisher: Mechanicsburg, PA : Stackpole Books, [2008]
• Copyright: ©2008

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 352-395) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

I On the Road to the Springfield Speech 1 -- Lincoln and Douglas-the Early Years 5 -- Helping Congressman Yates 8 -- Preparation to Fight Kansas-Nebraska 12 -- Senator Douglas Returns to Illinois 18 -- Speeches and Debates 24 -- Campaigning for Free-Soil 25 -- II Springfield, Peoria, and Beyond 37 -- On to Peoria 48 -- Peoria Speech 52 -- End of the 1854 Debates 58 -- End of the Campaign 62 -- III Kansas-Nebraska Act: The Context 69 -- Douglas's Motives 71 -- Insertion of "Inoperative and Void" 77 -- Chase Appeal 81 -- Opposition 86 -- Whigs 87 -- Pushing Passage 90 -- Protesting Passage 97 -- IV Peoria Speech: The Ideas and Arguments 101 -- Founders and the Declaration of Independence 103 -- National Expansion and Compromise 110 -- Compromise of 1850 119 -- Popular Sovereignty and Slavery 126 -- Race and Prejudice 135 -- Nationhood and Union 138 -- Principle and Policy 140 -- V Road From Peoria 153 -- Unintended Consequences of Kansas-Nebraska 155 -- Election Results and Realignment in Illinois 159 -- The 1854-1855 Senate Campaign 161 -- Realignment and the Republican Party 171 -- Bleeding Kansas 174 -- The 1856 Bloomington Convention 179 -- VI Challenging Dred Scott, the Supreme Court, and Douglas 189 -- Republican Reaction 191 -- The 1858 Senate Campaign 196 -- Lincoln-Douglas Debates 203 -- Presidential Campaign 209 -- VII Peoria Characterizes the Lincoln Presidency 217 -- Declaration of Independence and the Constitution 221 -- Preserving the Union 224 -- Slavery and Equality 230 -- Union, Morality, and Reality 238 -- South 241 -- Douglas and Lincoln 245 -- Bible and the World 248 -- IX Peoria Speech and the Historians' Record 269 -- Full Text of Speech at Peoria, Illinois 289.

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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 > Political career before 1861.
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