Description: Further DetailsTitle: Stephen A. Douglas and the Dilemmas of Democratic EqualityCondition: NewEAN: 9780742534568ISBN: 9780742534568Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield PublishersFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 12/13/2006Item Height: 246mmItem Length: 162mmItem Width: 20mmItem Weight: 440gAuthor: James L. HustonLanguage: EnglishISBN-10: 0742534561Description: Perhaps best known for his debates with Abraham Lincoln and his role in introducing the controversial Kansas-Nebraska Act, Stephen A. Douglas was a central character in the political firestorm that culminated in the American Civil War. In this engaging new biography, James L. Huston explores the life, ideology, and historical importance of America's "Little Giant." Born in 1813, Douglas came of age during the great democratization of American life. This was a time when egalitarianism became the national creed and President Andrew Jackson stood forth as its champion. Huston sets Douglas in this social and political milieu, and examines the unfolding of the principles of democracy in and through his life. Douglas's political career as a state legislator, U.S. Congressman, and ultimately U.S. Senator from Illinois placed him at the center of the struggle over the meaning of democracy and equality at both the state and national level. The renown that his debates of 1858 with Lincoln of the Republican Party garnered is but an emblem of the status that Douglas had as a leader of the Democratic Party and as the representative of a specific interpretation of the Jacksonian legacy of democratic populism. Huston places Douglas's life within the current historiographical controversies regarding the antebellum period and updates our understanding of the role that Douglas played in the creation of the Illinois Democratic party, the development of the ideals of Manifest Destiny, the struggle over slavery's extension into the West, the meaning of popular sovereignty, and the legitimacy of peaceful secession. Extensively researched and carefully documented, the book guides readers to original archival materials via a detailed bibliography and a section on the sources of Douglas's more famous statements. Huston's impressive work is a novel and lively presentation that shows Douglas to be a figure paradigmatic of the political complexities of the United States during the antebellum era.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: HistoryBook Series: American ProfilesRelease Year: 2006 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Stephen A. Douglas and the Dilemmas of Democratic Equality
Title: Stephen A. Douglas and the Dilemmas of Democratic Equality
EAN: 9780742534568
ISBN: 9780742534568
Release Date: 12/13/2006
Release Year: 2006
ISBN-10: 0742534561
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Series: American Profiles
Book Title: Stephen A. Douglas and the Dilemmas of Democratic Equality
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Publication Year: 2006
Item Height: 0.8 in
Topic: United States / 19th Century, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), Political, Political Process / Political Parties, Political Ideologies / Democracy, Historical
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Political Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Item Weight: 15.6 Oz
Item Length: 9.7 in
Author: James L. Huston
Item Width: 6.4 in
Format: Hardcover
