The Lincoln-Douglas Debates

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Summary: Readily accessible to a new generation of readers
Review: The Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858 helped bring to a head many significant issues from slavery and states' rights to the legal status of blacks in America, yet most of these debates have been diluted to mere paragraphs over history. Dover's republication of the two speeches and seven debates which originally appeared in a 1913 Putnam hardcover now returns here as a standby for any solid American history collection and makes one of the most pivotal pre-Civil War political events readily accessible to a new generation of readers.