The Long Pursuit: Abraham Lincoln's Thirty-Year Struggle with Stephen Douglas for the Heart and Soul of America - Softcover
Documents the long-term political rivalry between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas from a human standpoint, offering insight into how their personal animosity toward one another directly impacted Lincoln's presidency, the Civil War, and other historical events.
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About the Author:
Roy Morris, Jr. is the editor of Military Heritage magazine and the author of five books on the Civil War and post–Civil War eras, including Lighting Out for the Territory: How Samuel Clemens Headed West and Became Mark Twain and The Better Angel: Walt Whitman in the Civil War.
Review:
“Morris offers a juicy look at Lincoln the brawling, calculating politician. It is an immensely personal, profoundly readable insight of how even our most august Presidents assume and inflict ample bruises on their way to Pennsylvania Avenue.”—Justin Bachman, Business Week (Justin Bachman Business Week)
“Offers insights into both the political and human sides of the struggle between these two key players. It’s academic but accessible to the general reader.”—Reference & Research Book News (Reference & Research Book News)
"The Long Pursuit takes its reader to an original place in history—not merely to the famous 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates or the familiar 1960 presidential election but into the lives, the failures and successes, and the chases and confrontations of the two greatest men of their age."—Jason Emerson, The Historian (Jason Emerson The Historian)
“Offers insights into both the political and human sides of the struggle between these two key players. It’s academic but accessible to the general reader.”—Reference & Research Book News (Reference & Research Book News)
"The Long Pursuit takes its reader to an original place in history—not merely to the famous 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates or the familiar 1960 presidential election but into the lives, the failures and successes, and the chases and confrontations of the two greatest men of their age."—Jason Emerson, The Historian (Jason Emerson The Historian)
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- PublisherCollins
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 0060852100
- ISBN 13 9780060852108
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages256
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