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A House Dividing: The Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858

Posted By: arundhati
Date: 22 Jun 2024 08:41:45
A House Dividing: The Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858

Stephen Berry, "A House Dividing: The Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858 "
English | ISBN: 0199389969 | 2015 | 120 pages | PDF | 3 MB

A House Dividing: The Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858 updates the Lincoln-Douglas debates for the sound-bite era. Instead of 100,000 words, this volume in the Dialogues in History series gives students 20,000 words from the debates. Rather than long, uncontested ramblings, it offers rapid-fire accusations and responses. Despite their reputations as intellectual heavyweights, Lincoln and Douglas were not above mudslinging; their arguments prove surprisingly studded with ad hominem attacks, political grandstanding, and gross appeals to the candidates' respective bases.

Historians generally agree on Civil War causality: a disagreement over the right of slaveholding in the territories caused secession; a disagreement over the right of secession caused the Civil War.
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