Harry V. Jaffa
Crisis of the House Divided, is the standard historiography of the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Harry Jaffa provides the definitive analysis of the political principles that guided Lincoln from his re-entry into politics in 1854 through his Senate campaign against Douglas in 1858.,",Crisis of the House Divided, has shaped the thought of a generation of Abraham Lincoln and Civil War scholars."â€”Mark E. Needly, Jr., ,Civil War History,"An important book about one of the great episodes in the history of the sectional controversy. It breaks new ground and opens a new view of Lincoln's significance as a political thinker."â€”T. Harry Williams, ,Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences,"A searching and provocative analysis of the issues confronted and the ideas expounded in the great debates. . . . A book which displays such learning and insight that it cannot fail to excite the admiration even of scholars who disagree with its major arguments and conclusions."â€”D. E. Fehrenbacher, ,American Historical Review
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Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates