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Stephen A. Douglas
by Johannsen, Robert W
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- read description
- ISBN 10
- 0252066359
- ISBN 13
- 9780252066351
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About This Item
University of Illinois Press. 993 pages. This paperback has crinkling to the edges of pages at front and rear of book (light damp or handled by someone with damp hands???). Slight creasing to card at base of spine. A sound usable paperback. Stephen A. Douglas by Robert W. Johannsen. . read description. Soft cover. 1997.
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On Nov 8 2014, a reader said:
Best known today as the two-time electoral opponent of Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Douglas was the dominant American politician of the 1850s. In this book, Robert Johannsen provides a highly detailed examination of Douglas's life and career, from his childhood in Vermont to his early career as a lawyer and politician in Illinois and his subsequent role on the national stage. Though stronger on narrative than on analysis, Johannsen does show Douglas to be a capable and ambitious politician whose stance on popular sovereignty was a position sincerely held and not the product of cynical calculation. This served as the basis for the compromises that established Douglas's prominence in the fractious politics in the 1850s, though as Johannsen demonstrates his position ultimately too moderate for the Southerners who dominated his party to accept him as the Democrats' nominee for the presidency. It is this combination of detail and insight which makes Johannsen's book the definitive work on Douglas, one that is essential reading for anyone wishing to learn about "the Little Giant."
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- Bookseller
- Winghale Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 094239
- Title
- Stephen A. Douglas
- Author
- Johannsen, Robert W
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - read description
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0252066359
- ISBN 13
- 9780252066351
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Place of Publication
- Urbana & Chicago
- Date Published
- 1997
- Pages
- 1008
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