Lincoln's Tragic Pragmatism: Lincoln, Douglas, and Moral Conflict by John Burt

Lincoln's Tragic Pragmatism: Lincoln, Douglas, and Moral Conflict

John Burt

832 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction biography history politics informative reflective slow-paced
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A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceIn 1858, challenger Abraham Lincoln debated incumbent Stephen Douglas seven times in the race for a U.S. Senate seat from Illinois. More was at stake than slavery in those debates. In Lincoln's Tragic Pr...

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