Year of Meteors: Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, and the Election That Brought on the Civil War by Douglas R. Egerton

Year of Meteors: Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, and the Election That Brought on the Civil War

Douglas R. Egerton

399 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative slow-paced
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In early 1860, pundits across America confidently predicted the election of Illinois senator Stephen A. Douglas in the coming presidential race. Douglas, after all, was a national figure, a renowned orator, and led the only party that bridged Nort...

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