The Long Pursuit

A study of the rivalry between two American politicians and how it transformed them & the nation they sought to lead in the dark days before the Civil War. “This intimate dual portrait of Abe Lincoln and Stephen Douglas as young men . . . is a delight to read and a revealing journey through a mid-nineteenth-century America careening toward disaster.” —Kenneth Ackerman, author Young J. Edgar and Boss Tweed For the better part of two decades, Stephen Douglas was the most famous and controversi