Douglas R. Egerton: Year of Meteors: Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, and the Election That Brought on the Civil War [2011] hardback Condition:New Moving deftly between the personal

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Douglas R. Egerton: Year of Meteors: Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, and the Election That Brought on the Civil War [2011] hardback Condition:New Moving deftly between the personalIn early 1860, pundits across America confidently predicted the election of Illinois senator Stephen A. Douglas in the coming presidential race. Douglas, after all, led the only party that bridged North and South. But the Democrats would split over the issue ofslavery, leading Southerners in the party to run their own presidential slate. This opened the door for the upstart Republicans, exclusively Northern, to steal the Oval Office. Dark horse