The Complete Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858

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.


Author: Paul M. Angle
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 05/28/1991
Pages: 470
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.02h x 6.11w x 1.07d
ISBN13: 9780226020846
ISBN10: 0226020843
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | 19th Century
- History | United States | Civil War Period (1850-1877)

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