Douglas, Stephen A. (Stephen Arnold) 1813-1861

Created equal? : the complete Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858 by Abraham Lincoln ( Book )
16 editions published between 1958 and 1991 in English and held by 1,790 libraries worldwide
The Lincoln-Douglas debates remain our culture's model of what public debate ought to be. This new edition of the complete transcripts of the debates and eyewitness interpretations of them includes a new foreword by David Zarefsky.

The Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858 by Abraham Lincoln ( Book )
17 editions published between 1918 and 2009 in English and held by 1,719 libraries worldwide
"The Lincoln-Douglas Debates, seven legendary meetings between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas during their 1858 senatorial campaign in Illinois, made history, and changed its course as well. ... The debates were the culmination of a political rivalry that had its origin twenty-five years before, when Lincoln and Douglas were aspiring politicians in the Illinois legislature. The main theme was slavery and its expansion into the western territories. Douglas argued for the concept of popular sovereignty, with the people of each territory deciding the slavery question for themselves. But in Lincoln's view, this approach would nationalize and perpetuate slavery. Though Douglas won re-election to the Senate, Lincoln's gift for oratory and his anti-slavery stance in the debates made him a nationally known figure, and led to his election to the presidency in 1860"--Container.

The Lincoln-Douglas debates : the first complete, unexpurgated text by Abraham Lincoln ( Book )
7 editions published between 1993 and 2004 in English and held by 1,505 libraries worldwide
In the blistering summer of 1858, as America teetered on the brink of disunion, two Illinois politicians seized the nation's attention and gripped it for two extraordinary months. Through the sheer force of their words, personalities, and ideas, Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas transformed a local contest for the U.S. Senate into a watershed national debate on the contentious issue of slavery and, indeed, on the principles upon which this country was founded. Yet what Lincoln and Douglas really said in those seminal debates has long been suppressed. At the time, newspapers were blatantly partisan, and though stenographers took down the speeches word for word, editors and transcribers subsequently "improved" their candidate's remarks while printing his opponent's words, warts and all. What has been reprinted ever since are the "improved," inaccurate versions. Harold Holzer has uncovered unedited texts of the debates, and this book will be the first ever to present all seven of them in their unexpurgated entirety. Besides the first true transcription of the debates, Holzer offers, through an Introduction and extensive notes, crystalline portraits of the combatants - their personalities and bearing, their quirks and foibles. Holzer also casts a brilliant light on the "house divided against itself," showing us an America at once exuberant and deeply uncertain about its future. He provides trenchant evocations of the physical and emotional stages on which the debates were set. We glimpse the feverishly enthusiastic audiences that mobbed the debates. We also witness the exceptional fervor with which the entire country followed them. Lincoln and Douglas galvanized a nation and permanently transformed our national consciousness with the speeches they gave during the summer and fall of 1858. To read the words these men actually spoke in their historic confrontation is an opportunity to witness the apex of American political discourse. Here - for the first time in more than 130 years - are those words. Here - at last - is that opportunity.

Letters by Stephen A Douglas ( Book )
2 editions published in 1961 in English and held by 922 libraries worldwide

The Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858 by Abraham Lincoln ( Book )
12 editions published between 1908 and 2008 in English and held by 522 libraries worldwide

The writings of Abraham Lincoln by Abraham Lincoln ( Book )
18 editions published between 1905 and 1942 in English and held by 505 libraries worldwide

Political debates between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, in the celebrated campaign of 1858 in Illinois : including the preceding speeches of each, at Chicago, Springfield, etc. : also the two great speeches of Mr. Lincoln in Ohio, in 1859, as carefully prepared by the reporters of each party, and published at the times of their delivery by Abraham Lincoln ( Book )
18 editions published between 1860 and 1998 in English and held by 455 libraries worldwide

In the name of the people; speeches and writings of Lincoln and Douglas in the Ohio campaign of 1859 by Abraham Lincoln ( Book )
4 editions published in 1959 in English and held by 407 libraries worldwide

Popular sovereignty in the territories the dividing line between federal and local authority by Stephen A Douglas ( Book )
12 editions published between 1859 and 1860 in English and held by 263 libraries worldwide

A brief treatise upon constitutional and party questions and the history of political parties, as I received it orally from the late Senator Stephen A. Douglas by Stephen A Douglas ( Book )
8 editions published between 1866 and 1979 in English and held by 256 libraries worldwide