Description. In the election of 1860, Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated Illinois Senator Stephen Douglas of the Democratic Party, Vice President and Southern Democratic Party candidate John ...

Douglas R. Egerton, Bloomsbury Press, $28 (416p) ISBN 978-1-59691-619-7 The center could not hold amid a flood of passionate intensity recorded in this illuminating study of the 1860 election ...

Stephen Douglas, who had defeated Lincoln in that Senate campaign two years earlier, ... In the wake of that crucial election of 1860, America's worst crisis had begun.

The Democrats had fractured after nominating Stephen Douglas, ... He was president throughout the 1860 election but wasn’t even up for re-election after Democrats refused to renominate him.

Perhaps more effective in assisting in understanding the voting process, however, was the election of 1860. ... Besides the Republican Lincoln and Northern Democrat challenger Stephen Douglas, ...

The election of 1860, when Abraham Lincoln won the presidency over Stephen A. Douglas and two others, essentially was a referendum on the expansion of slavery.

Lincoln, of course, won that 1860 election when he cobbled together 180 electoral votes even though he lost the popular vote in a four-way race in which North-South geography was critically important.

McClelland then addresses the rematch between the two men in the presidential election of 1860. As he takes us on the campaign trail, we clearly see the bitter rivalry, particularly from Douglas, who ...

In 1860, Abraham Lincoln (and the Republican Party) stood as the only viable alternative to the moral indifference of Illinois Senator Stephen Douglas’s “popular sovereignty” and the pro-slavery ...

Stephen A. Douglas has always been a controversial politician. ... But Douglas’s greatest service to the nation was his behavior during and after the 1860 presidential election.