The Election of 1860 Reconsidered.

Intro -- Halftitle Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Election of 1860 Reconsidered -- 1. The Political Organizer: Abraham Lincoln's 1860 Campaign -- 2. The 1860 Southern Sojourns of Stephen A. Douglas and the Irrepressible Separation -- 3. A Forlorn Hope: Interpreting the Breckinridge Campaign as a Matter of Honor -- 4. The Last True Whig: John Bell and the Politics of Compromise in 1860 -- 5. Frederick Douglass and the Abolitionist Response to the Election of 1860 -- 6. Saving the Republic: Turnout, Ideology, and Republicanism in the Election of 1860 -- 7. The Election of 1860 and Political Realignment Theory: Indiana as a Case Study -- 8. The View from Abroad: Europeans Look at the Election of 1860 -- 9. "An Inscrutable Election?": The Historiography of the Election of 1860 -- Contributors -- Index.

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