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Series
Library of America volume 45
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
1989
Physical Desc
xix, 898 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1998.
Physical Desc
383 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Examines certain aspects of the life of Abraham Lincoln in the years between 1831 and 1842, presenting him as a stubborn youth, partial to off-color jokes, and prone to depression; and traces the process by which he rose from unskilled laborer to a position of prominence in the Illinois legislature.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Paperback
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
xxvii, 383 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
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 1858. Lincoln challenged Douglas directly in one of his greatest speeches--"A house divided against itself cannot stand"--and confronted Douglas on the questions of slavery and the inviolability of the Union in seven fierce debates. Of course, the great issue was slavery....
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