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Title: Complete Lincoln - Douglas Debates of 1858 by Paul Angle, David Zarefsky, Abraham Lincoln ISBN: 0-226-02084-3 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Pub. Date: April, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: real history
Comment: It is always instructive to go to original sources. These debates set Lincoln solidly on the way to the presidency. It was the first time that national newspaper coverage of a "local contest" had a role in defining national difficulties. Lincoln comes across as a passive opponent of slavery, nothing of an abolishonist. Douglas unabasedly draws distictions between the "superior" White race and all other "inferior" races, which GOT CHEERS from the crowd. This is the actual history not some sanitized version of events.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Real Eye Opener
Comment: Lincoln and Douglas really stood before people and said the things documented in this book. Lincoln changed his interpretation of black-white relations to suit his target audience. With no national press available to put his feet to the fire, any candidate could change his opinions at any time to seek votes.
Douglas, although he was the same man throughout the campaign, had distasteful views to our modern perspective. Only white Christian men had anything worthwhile to offer society. Everyone else was an unpleasant burden for them to suffer with (noblesse oblige).
When I started to read the speeches, I expected Lincoln to be the obvious winner in the debates. He's a winner to me, but by a much smaller margin than anticipated. Anyone who wants to know history from the mouths of the actual players should read this book.
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Title: Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke, L. G. Mitchell ISBN: 0192839780 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: November, 1999 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: The Essential Bill of Rights by Gordon Lloyd, Margie Lloyd, Margien Lloyd ISBN: 0761810765 Publisher: University Press of America Pub. Date: 23 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Essential Antifederalist by William B. Allen, Gordon Lloyd ISBN: 0742521885 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield (Non NBN) Pub. Date: February, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Democracy in America by Alexis De Tocqueville, Richard D. Heffner ISBN: 0451528123 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: 05 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: The Republic of Plato by Plato, Allan Bloom ISBN: 0465069347 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: September, 1991 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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