Complete Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858

Title: Complete Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858
Author: Paul M Angle
ISBN: 9780226020846
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1991
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: New edition
Number of Pages: 470
Publisher Description: 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.