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The Complete Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858
Abraham Lincoln
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Description for The Complete Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858
Paperback. Editor(s): Angle, Paul McClelland. Num Pages: 490 pages, 2 halftones, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 27. Weight in Grams: 640.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Condition
New
Weight
640g
Number of Pages
490
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226020846
SKU
V9780226020846
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About Abraham Lincoln
Paul M. Angle, a noted Lincoln scholar, was director of the Chicago Historical Society from 1945 to 1965.
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