Lincoln at Peoria: The Turning PointStackpole Books, 2008 M06 13 - 400 páginas The pivotal speech that changed the course of Lincoln's career and America's history. Complete examination of the speech, including the full text delivered in 1854 in Peoria, Illinois. |
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... Yates Preparation to Fight Kansas-Nebraska Senator Douglas Returns to Illinois Speeches and Debates Campaigning for Free-Soil II. SPRINGFIELD, PEORIA, AND BEYOND On to Peoria Peoria Speech The End of the 1854 Debates The End of the ...
... Yates Preparation to Fight Kansas-Nebraska Senator Douglas Returns to Illinois Speeches and Debates Campaigning for Free-Soil II. SPRINGFIELD, PEORIA, AND BEYOND On to Peoria Peoria Speech The End of the 1854 Debates The End of the ...
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... Yates, Lyman Trumbull Pro-Nebraska National Leaders 79 Jefferson, Davis, Alexander H. Stephens, David Rice Atchison, Franklin Pierce Anti-Nebraska National Leaders 89 Salmon P. Chase, William H. Seward, Charles Sumner, Sam Houston Map ...
... Yates, Lyman Trumbull Pro-Nebraska National Leaders 79 Jefferson, Davis, Alexander H. Stephens, David Rice Atchison, Franklin Pierce Anti-Nebraska National Leaders 89 Salmon P. Chase, William H. Seward, Charles Sumner, Sam Houston Map ...
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... Yates. Antislavery principle, public ambition, and political opportunity drove Lincoln to select an immediate and practical target in 1854—the need for central Illinois to reelect its anti-Nebraska congressman. Richard Yates, the ...
... Yates. Antislavery principle, public ambition, and political opportunity drove Lincoln to select an immediate and practical target in 1854—the need for central Illinois to reelect its anti-Nebraska congressman. Richard Yates, the ...
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... Yates had much else in common. Yates, too, was a native of Kentucky and a four-term state legislator. He knew and admired Lincoln. But Yates was more fashionable. One contemporary described Yates as “a splendid looking man, well made ...
... Yates had much else in common. Yates, too, was a native of Kentucky and a four-term state legislator. He knew and admired Lincoln. But Yates was more fashionable. One contemporary described Yates as “a splendid looking man, well made ...
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... Yates made ready to lay down his sword . Yates intended to announce his retirement from Congress when he returned to Springfield on August 9 . Rumors of alcoholism shadowed Yates's entire political career , but Lin- coln wrote to a ...
... Yates made ready to lay down his sword . Yates intended to announce his retirement from Congress when he returned to Springfield on August 9 . Rumors of alcoholism shadowed Yates's entire political career , but Lin- coln wrote to a ...
Contenido
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37 | |
69 | |
THE IDEAS AND ARGUMENTS 101 | 101 |
V THE ROAD FROM PEORIA 153 | 153 |
VI CHALLENGING DRED SCOTT THE SUPREME COURT AND DOUGLAS 189 | 189 |
VII PEORIA CHARACTERIZES THE LINCOLN PRESIDENCY 217 | 217 |
VIII CODA 257 | 257 |
Full Text of Speech at Peoria Illinois 289 | 289 |
Acknowledgments 329 | 329 |
Milestones in the Lives of Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A Douglas 341 | 341 |
Notes 352 | 352 |
Bibliography 382 | 382 |
Index 396 | 396 |
Back Cover | 413 |
IX THE PEORIA SPEECH AND THE HISTORIANS RECORD 269 | 269 |
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Lincoln at Peoria: The Turning Point : Getting Right with the Declaration of ... Lewis E. Lehrman Vista de fragmentos - 2008 |
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