Stephen a. Douglas - 9780252066351

Stephen a. DouglasAuthor(s): Robert W. Johannsen\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Illinois Press, United States\nImprint: University of Illinois Press\nISBN-13: 9780252066351, 978-0252066351\nSynopsis\n Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize of the Society of American Historians\nFor the quarter-century before 1860 Stephen A. Douglas was a dominant\nfigure on the American political scene, far outshadowing Abraham Lincoln.\nThis first paperback printing of Robert Johannsen's authoritative biography\nfeatures a new preface.\n\""At once a work of enormous scholarship and of deep insight. Here,\nfor the first time, is the full story of a great career, told with such\nskill that we can now understand why Abraham Lincoln found the 'Little\nGiant' the most formidable political rival he ever faced.\"" -- David\nH. Donald, author of Lincoln and two-time winner of the Pulitzer\nPrize\n\""Well-organized and marvelously detailed. . . . The book demonstrates\nthe virtues of large-scale, strn