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Stephen A. Douglas and the Dilemmas of Democratic Equality

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Stephen A. Douglas and the Dilemmas of Democratic Equality - Huston, James L, Professor
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In this engaging new biography, James L. Huston explores the political life of Stephen A. Douglas and his definition and promotion of the ideal of democratic equality. By placing Douglas in the current historiographical controversies of the antebellum period, Huston updates our understanding of Douglas and the battles that he fought over the meaning democracy and its institutional framework in the building of the Democratic party, the struggle over slavery's extension into the West, the meaning of popular sovereignty and ...

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Stephen A. Douglas and the Dilemmas of Democratic Equality 2006, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Lanham, MD

ISBN-13: 9780742534568

Hardcover