The Complete Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858

by Abraham Lincoln, Paul M. Angle (Editor), Stephen A. Douglas, David Zarefsky (Foreword by)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780226020846
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Publication date:	05/28/1991
Edition description:	1
Pages:	470
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

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



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



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



David Zarefsky is dean of the School of Speech and professor of communication studies at Northwestern University.

Table of Contents

Foreword, 1991
Introduction
A Note about the Texts
I. The Campaign Opens
II. The Springfield Speeches
III. Taking the Stump
IV. The Ottawa Debate
V. The Freeport Debate
VI. The Campaign Progresses
VII. The Jonesboro Debate
VIII. The Charleston Debate
IX. Touches of Temper
X. The Galesburg Debate
XI. The Quincy Debate
XII. The Alton Debate
XIII. The Campaign Ends
Appendix
Index

Editorial Reviews

[Angle's] introduction and short introductory notes to each speech provides the reader with an excellent analysis of the problem of slavery in the territories, the movements of the candidates, the receptions in the various Illinois towns, as well as the physical arrangements, audience, and weather for each debate….Since 1968, other editions of the debates have appeared….Yet the Angle volume remains as one of the favorite most valuable of the debate accounts.
—Reprint Bulletin

William G. Edison