Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates

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Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates

Author: Harry V. Jaffa
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Copyright: 1999
Pages: 460
Cover Price: $ 22.50

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Crisis of the House Divided is the standard historiography of the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Harry Jaffa provides the definitive analysis of the political principles that guided Lincoln from his re-entry into politics in 1854 through his Senate campaign against Douglas in 1858.

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Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas debated many of the issues that would divide the nation during their campaign for the United States Senate in Illinois in 1858.