Lincoln, Douglas, and Slavery: In the Crucible of Public Debate

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University of Chicago Press, 1993 - 324 páginas
Winner of the Speech Communication's Winans-Wichelns Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address. Zarefsky examines the dynamics of the seven 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates, placing them in historical context and explaining the complicated issue of slavery in the territories, their focal point. He elucidates the candidates' arguments, analyzes their rhetorical strategies, and shows how public sentiment is transformed.

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The Issues and the Men
1
The Senatorial Campaign
40
The Conspiracy Argument
68
The Legal Argument
111
The Historical Argument
141
The Moral Argument
166
The Aftermath of the Debates
198
The Debates and Public Argument
223
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David Zarefsky is dean of the School of Speech and professor of communication studies at Northwestern University.

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