The Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858; Volume 3 - Softcover

Lincoln, Abraham 1809-1865; Douglas, Stephen Arnold 1813-1861; Sparks, Edwin Erle 1860-1924

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9781371849948: The Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858; Volume 3

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ISBN 10: 1371849943 ISBN 13: 9781371849948

Publisher: Wentworth Press, 2016

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Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) was the sixteenth president of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He led the US through its greatest constitutional, military, and moral crises--the American Civil War--preserving the Union, abolishing slavery, strengthening the national government, and modernizing the economy. Reared in a poor family in rural Indiana, he was a self-educated man. In the 1830s he became a country lawyer, a Whig Party leader, and Illinois state legislator. He later served as a one-term member of the House of Representatives during the 1840s.

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In 1858, the two candidates for a U.S. Senate seat in Illinois, Republican Abraham Lincoln and incumbent Democrat Stephen Douglas, engaged in a series of three-hour debates across the state, talking mainly about slavery and territorial expansion. This audiobook is a word-for-word chronicle of those debates. David Strathairn (Lincoln) and Richard Dreyfuss (Douglas) do an excellent job acting out these historic meetings. They use their own voices, with no attempt to recreate nineteenth-century Midwestern accents, and they successfully mimic the speaking patterns and pacing unique to orators of that era. Lincoln and Douglas never formally engaged in conversations during their debates, but Strathairn and Dreyfuss reconstruct the passion and lively repartee that characterized their confrontations. R.I.G. � AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine

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