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Crisis of the house divided : an interpretation of the issues in the Lincoln-Douglas debates / Harry V. Jaffa.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jaffa, Harry V., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Political career before 1861.
- Lincoln, Abraham.
- Douglas, Stephen A. (Stephen Arnold), 1813-1861.
- Douglas, Stephen A.
- Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858.
- United States--Politics and government--1857-1861.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (466 pages)
- Edition:
- Fiftieth anniversary edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2009]
- Summary:
- Crisis of the House Divided is the standard historiography of the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Harry Jaffa provides the definitive analysis of the political principles that guided Lincoln from his reentry into politics in 1854 through his Senate campaign against Douglas in 1858. To mark the fiftieth anniversary of the original publication, Jaffa has provided a new introduction. " Crisis of the House Divided has shaped the thought of a generation of Abraham Lincoln and Civil War scholars."-Mark E. Needly, Jr., Civil War History "An important book about one of the great episodes in the history of the sectional controversy. It breaks new ground and opens a new view of Lincoln's significance as a political thinker."-T. Harry Williams, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences "A searching and provocative analysis of the issues confronted and the ideas expounded in the great debates.... A book which displays such learning and insight that it cannot fail to excite the admiration even of scholars who disagree with its major arguments and conclusions."-D. E. Fehrenbacher, American Historical Review
- Contents:
- 1958: the crisis in historical judgment
- 1858: Lincoln versus Douglas: the alternatives
- Slavery
- Manifest destiny
- The repeal of the Missouri Compromise I: the legal power and practical impotence of federal prohibitions of slavery in the territories
- The repeal of the Missouri Compromise II: did the Compromise of 1850 "supersede" the Missouri Compromise?
- The repeal of the Missouri Compromise III: what Douglas intended on January 4, 1854
- The repeal of the Missouri Compromise IV: tragedy: the extremes crush the mean
- The teaching concerning political salvation
- The teaching concerning political moderation
- The legal tendency toward slavery expansion
- The political tendency toward slavery expansion
- The intrinsic evil of the repeal of the Missouri Compromise
- The universal meaning of the Declaration of Independence
- The form and substance of political freedom in the modern world
- Popular sovereignty: true and false
- The meaning of equality: abstract and political
- The "natural limits" of slavery expansion
- Did the Republicans abandon Lincoln's principles after the election of 1860?
- The end of manifest destiny
- Appendix I: some of the historical background to the Lincoln-Douglas debates
- Appendix II: some notes on the Dred Scott decision.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780226111582
- 022611158X
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