Stephen A. Douglas and the Dilemmas of Democratic Equality

by James L. Huston

In this engaging new biography, James L. Huston explores the political life of Stephen A. Douglas and his definition and promotion of the ideal of democratic equality. By placing Douglas in the current historiographical controversies of the antebellum period, Huston updates our understanding of Douglas and the battles that he fought over the meaning democracy and its institutional framework in the building of the Democratic party, the struggle...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742534561
• ISBN13: 9780742534568
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.1"