Lincoln/Douglas debate

[Joe Di Cola]

I just wanted to "recommend" what I think is one of the best (if not THE best) book on the debates--Allen C. Guelzo's LINCOLN AND DOUGLAS. Way back when my parents gave me a book for Christmas that I still have. It was published by the LOC and was a copy of Lincoln's "scrapbook" of the debates as recorded in the newspapers, clipped out by Lincoln, pasted in the scrapbook, with Lincoln's handwritten annotations. It is a large folio size book, entitled THE ILLINOIS POLITICAL CAMPAIGN OF 1858. Because of Lincoln's annotations, it is an interesting source.