| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.1

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Book Review

Stephen A. Douglas and the Dilemmas of Democratic Equality. By James L. Huston. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007. xii, 221 pp. $39.00, ISBN 978-0-7425-3456-8.)
Amid the flurry of new books about Abraham Lincoln, it is a pleasant surprise to find a biography of his antagonist, Stephen A. Douglas—the first significant one since Robert W. Johannsen's magisterial Stephen A. Douglas (1973). James L. Huston claims Johannsen as his mentor and was guided by the older work. Huston's book is abbreviated, but it succinctly covers Douglas's career.	. . .

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