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02702aam a2200325 i 4500 001 86229038383811EFBB58162234ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240702010121 008 231021s2024 nyu e b 001 0deng d 020 $a 1639366377 020 $a 9781639366378 035 $a (OCoLC)1405188636 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d GK8 $d OCLCO $d PX0 $d OCLCO $d LE# $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 100 1 $a McClelland, Ted, $e author. 245 10 $a Chorus of the union : $b how Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglast set aside their rivalry to save the nation / $c Edward Robert McClelland. 250 $a First Pegasus Books cloth edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Pegasus Books, $c 2024. 300 $a 344 pages ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a An impassioned and timely exploration of Abraham Lincoln's long-time rivalry--and eventual alliance--with Stephen Douglas. Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas are a misunderstood duo. History remembers them as antagonists, and for most of the years the two men knew each other, they were. In the 1830s, they debated politics around the stove in the back of Joshua Speed's store in Springfield, Illinois. In the 1850s, they disagreed over the Kansas-Nebraska Act and debated slavery as opponents for a Senate seat. In 1860, they both ran for president. Lincoln and Douglas ended as allies, though, against the greatest threat--slavery--that our country has ever faced. When Douglas realized he was going to lose the 1860 election, he stopped campaigning for himself and went South to persuade the slave states to accept Lincoln as president. After that effort failed, and the newly formed Confederate States of America bombed Fort Sumter, Douglas met with Lincoln to discuss raising an army. The story of how Lincoln and Douglas put aside their rivalry to work together for the preservation of the Union has important lessons for our time. We have just been through a presidential election where the loser refused to concede defeat, with violent consequences. Not only did Douglas accept his loss, he spent the final days of his campaign barnstorming the country to build support for his opponent's impending victory, setting aside his long-held desire for the presidency for the higher principle of national unity. 941 $a 7 952 $l CMPE792 $d 20240809020728.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20240802015740.0 952 $l GOPG641 $d 20240710065616.0 952 $l GEPG771 $d 20240704010700.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20240702031830.0 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20240702030032.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20240702010946.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=86229038383811EFBB58162234ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search