The Long Pursuit

Roy Morris Jr., of Chattanooga, Tennessee, edits Military Heritage Magazine and has authored works on Rutherford B. Hayes (Fraud of the Century, 2003), Walt Whitman (The Better Angel, 2000), and Ambrose Bierce (Ambrose Bierce, 1995). His latest publication is a dual biography of Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas, tracing them from when they first saw each other until the presidential election of 1860. Such a comparison book is most interesting, although Morris is not a noted Lincoln or Douglas scholar. However, his writing is breezy and flowing. The book is aimed at the general public and tells the history of two men completely different in physique, background, education, wealth, and political platform. As Morris recounts their histories, Douglas, from the East, and Lincoln, from Kentucky, became rivals immediately. At one time, they even courted the same girl. Lincoln, originally a Whig, vowed that

Art · Art history · Biography · Performance art · Political science · Politics · Presidential system · Soul · Theology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · American History and Culture · Classics · History · Law · Philosophy