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This edition brings up to date the material on institutions and practices of government in Britain, the United States, and Canada, and analyses more fully the relationship of democratic institutions and practices to the essentials of the democratic creed.

As historian James McPherson has written in endorsing this book: "The first political confrontation between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas occurred not in the famous debates of 1858" but four years earlier. This book is the first complete account of those 1854 debates.As that year dawned, Lincoln's political future looked dim. His single term in the House of Representatives six years earlier seemed to have marked both the beginning and...

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The twentieth century is often referred to as "The American Century". In this new book, John A. Corry examines how the year 1898 was the watershed that set the scene for the century that would follow.It was 1898, in a decisive victory in a war with Spain lasting less than four months, that the United States acquired territories in the Caribbean and Pacific, marking its fast major step toward becoming a world power. Other important events led t...

In early October, 1898, New York's Republican Party was in trouble, and its gubernatorial candidate, Theodore Roosevelt, was facing defeat. He had avoided paying New York taxes by claiming non resident status, reformers were accusing him of reneging on his promise to run as an independent candidate, and he had antagonized many veterans by suggesting that his Rough Riders were better soldiers than New York volunteers. In a dramatic series of 'w...