| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 96.1

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Lincoln at Peoria: The Turning Point. By Lewis E. Lehrman. (Mechanicsburg: Stackpole, 2008. xx, 412 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-8117-0361-1.)
When Abraham Lincoln spoke out against the Kansas-Nebraska Act in Peoria, Illinois, in October 1854, the speech marked a turning point in the career of the prairie lawyer-politician. Although he had served in the state legislature for eight years and for one term in Congress, Lincoln had not held a political office in the past five years. While he had always opposed the extension of the institution of slavery and favored placing it, in his words, on the "course of ultimate extinction," Lincoln infused his speeches from 1854 forward with a moral earnestness that distinguished them from his earlier efforts (p. 198).	1
Lewis E. Lehrman, a cofounder of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, has long had a passion for American history and particularly for Lincoln. In this volume, he draws renewed attention to the earliest of Lincoln's mature antislavery speeches.	. . .

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