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Year of meteors, Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, and the election that brought on the Civil War, Douglas R. Egerton

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Year of meteors, Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, and the election that brought on the Civil War, Douglas R. Egerton

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eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

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illustrations

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Year of meteors

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electronic resource eBook

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bibliographydictionaries

Responsibility statement

Douglas R. Egerton

Sub title

Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, and the election that brought on the Civil War

Table Of Contents

Chapter 1. A Nation with Its "Hands Full": The Republic on the Eve of 1860 -- Chapter 2. "Douglas or Nobody": The Democrats -- Chapter 3. Principles and the "Duty to Recognize" None: The Constitutional Union and Liberty Parties -- Chapter 4. "Moving Heaven and Earth": The Republicans -- Chapter 5. "Beyond the Power of Surgery": The Democrats, Again -- Chapter 6. "Lincoln Is the Next President. I Will Go South": The Campaigns -- Chapter 7. "The Union Is Dissolved": The Lower South Secedes -- Chapter 8. "Others to Share the Burden": Two Governments Prepare -- Chapter 9. "All Our Labor Is Lost": Compromise Committees and the Washington Peace Conference

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