Lincoln's tragic pragmatism : Lincoln, Douglas, and moral conflict / John Burt.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Burt, John, 1955-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Douglas, Stephen A. (Stephen Arnold), 1813-1861.
• Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
• Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858.
• Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Political and social views.
• Political and social views.
• Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Ethics.
• Douglas, Stephen A. (Stephen Arnold), 1813-1861--Political and social views.
• Douglas, Stephen A. (Stephen Arnold), 1813-1861--Ethics.
• Democracy--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.
• Slavery--Moral and ethical aspects--United States--History--19th century.
• Slavery--Moral and ethical aspects.
• History.
• Slavery.
• Democracy--Moral and ethical aspects.
• Ethics.
• United States.

Physical Description:

xvii, 814 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2013.

Contents:

• 1 Introduction: Implicitness and Moral Conflict 1
• 1.1 Negative Capability 1
• 1.2 Liberalism and Moral Conflict 10
• 2 Lincoln's Peoria Speech of 1854 27
• 2.1 The Debate over the Kansas-Nebraska Act 27
• 2.2 Making and Breaking Deals in 1850 and in 1854 50
• 2.3 Lincoln's Chief Arguments 62
• 2.4 The Irony of American History 88
• 3 Lincoln's Conspiracy Charge 94
• 3.1 The "House Divided" Metaphor 95
• 3.2 The Unfolding of the Bleeding Kansas War 104
• 3.5 Douglas and the Lecompton Constitution 116
• 3.4 Lincoln's Evidence 124
• 3.5 Dred Scott II 165
• 3.6 A Living Dog Is Better than a Dead Lion 174
• 4 Douglas's Conspiracy Charge 178
• 4.1 Lincoln and the Founding of the Republican Party 178
• 4.2 The Reorganization of Parties 183
• 4.3 From Wing to Republican 213
• 4.4 Anti-Nebraska and Anti-Lecompton Democrats 221
• 4.5 The 1854 Platforms 226
• 4.6 Conspiracies across Party Lines 239
• 4.7 Sectional and Ideological Parties 247
• 4.8 Conclusion 269
• 5 Douglas's Fanaticism Charge 270
• 5.1 Hostility to New England 271
• 5.2 The Apodictic Style and Reasonableness 280
• 5.3 Appeals to the Divine Will 295
• 5.4 Implicitness and Situatedness 301
• 5.5 Transformation of Conceptions 312
• 5.6 Limits of Persuasive Engagement 318
• 6 Douglas's Racial Equality Charge 335
• 6.1 Lincolns Nonextension Position and Anti-slavery 336
• 6.2 Douglas on Abolition and Black Citizenship 367
• 6.3 From Nonextension to Emancipation 382
• 6.4 From Emancipation to Citizenship 406
• 6.5 Racism and Freedom 423
• 7 The Dred Scott Case 449
• 7.1 Legal Background of the Case 452
• 7.2 The Dred Scott Case in Court 466
• 7.3 Lincoln's Response 480
• 7.4 Douglas's Response 520
• 7.5 Conclusion 548
• 8 Aftershocks of the Debates 554
• 8.1 Southern Responses to the Freeport Doctrine 558
• 8.2 Douglass "Dividing Line" Doctrine 560
• 8.3 The Pamphlet War with Jeremiah Black 574
• 8.4 The 1859 Ohio "Lincoln-Douglas Debates" 579
• 8.5 The Cooper Union Speech 602
• 8.6 The First Inaugural Address 621
• 9 Coda: And the War Came 649
• 9.1 The Gettysburg Address 650
• 9.2 The Will of God Prevails 670
• 9.3 The Second Inaugural Address 684.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

• 9780674050181
• 0674050185

OCLC:

783520852