Complete Lincoln - Douglas Debates of 1858

Angle, Paul M. (EDT); Lincoln, Abraham; Douglas, Stephen Arnold

ISBN 10: 0226020843 / ISBN 13: 9780226020846

Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 1991

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Inhaltsangabe:

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 political scene today.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

Paul M. Angle, a noted Lincoln scholar, was director of the Chicago Historical Society from 1945 to 1965.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Complete Lincoln - Douglas Debates of 1858
Verlag: University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 1991
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: good