Lincoln and Douglas : the debates that defined America / Allen C. Guelzo.

1st Simon & Schuster trade paperback ed.

9780743273213 (pbk.)
0743273214 (pbk.)

New York : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2009.

English

xxvii, 383 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

E457.4 .G84 2009

In 1858, Abraham Lincoln was known as a successful Illinois lawyer. Two years later, he was elected president. What carried this one-term congressman from obscurity to fame was the campaign he mounted for the United States Senate against the country's most formidable politician, Stephen A. Douglas, in the summer and fall of 1858. As this brilliant narrative by the prize-winning Lincoln scholar Allen Guelzo dramatizes, Lincoln would emerge a predominant national figure, the leader of his party, the man who would bear the burden of the national confrontation. (from back cover)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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