Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates : with a New PrefaceCrisis of the House Divided is the standard historiography of the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Harry Jaffa provides the definitive analysis of the political principles that guided Lincoln from his re-entry into politics in 1854 through his Senate campaign against Douglas in 1858. "Crisis of the House Divided has shaped the thought of a generation of Abraham Lincoln and Civil War scholars."—Mark E. Needly, Jr., Civil War History "An important book about one of the great episodes in the history of the sectional controversy. It breaks new ground and opens a new view of Lincoln's significance as a political thinker."—T. Harry Williams, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences "A searching and provocative analysis of the issues confronted and the ideas expounded in the great debates. . . . A book which displays such learning and insight that it cannot fail to excite the admiration even of scholars who disagree with its major arguments and conclusions."—D. E. Fehrenbacher, American Historical Review |
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User Review - dhmontgomery - LibraryThingA book of superb legal and philosophic analysis, though reading it today one is put off by the degree to which it is fixated on historiographic disputes of the 1950s. Jaffa undertakes a thorough but ... Read full review
Contents
1958 The Crisis in Historical Judgment | 19 |
1858 Lincoln versus Douglas The Alternatives | 28 |
THE CASE FOR DOUGLAS | 39 |
Slavery | 41 |
Manifest Destiny | 63 |
The Repeal of the Missouri Compromise I The Legal Power and Practical Impotence of Federal Prohibitions of Slavery in the Territories | 104 |
The Repeal of the Missouri Compromise II Did the Compromise of 1850 Supersede the Missouri Compromise? | 133 |
The Repeal of the Missouri Compromise III What Douglas Intended on January 4 1854 | 147 |
The Political Tendency toward Slavery Expansion | 294 |
The Intrinsic Evil of the Repeal of the Missouri Compromise | 302 |
The Universal Meaning of the Declaration of Independence | 308 |
The Form and Substance of Political Freedom in the Modern World | 330 |
Popular Sovereignty True and False | 347 |
The Meaning of Equality Abstract and Practical | 363 |
The Natural Limits of Slavery Expansion | 387 |
Did the Republicans Abandon Lincolns Principles after the Election of 1860? | 400 |
The Repeal of the Missouri Compromise IV Tragedy The Extremes Crush the Mean | 171 |
THE POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY OF A YOUNG WHIG | 181 |
The Teaching Concerning Political Salvation | 183 |
The Teaching Concerning Political Moderation | 236 |
THE CASE FOR LINCOLN | 273 |
The Legal Tendency toward Slavery Expansion | 275 |
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| Title | Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates : with a New Preface Volume 65 of Washington paperbacks |
| Author | Harry V. Jaffa |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press, 1982 |
| ISBN | 0226391132, 9780226391137 |
| Length | 451 pages |
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