Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings Vol. 1 1832-1858 (LOA #45) - Library of America Abraham Lincoln Edition

With over 100,000 copies in print, here, with a new jacket for Lincoln?s bicentennial, is the first volume in The Library of America?s acclaimed, comprehensive edition of Lincoln?s writings, featuring 240 speeches, letters, and drafts charting his rise from rural law practice to national prominence. It includes the full texts of the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates and the House Divided speech, as well as a detailed chronology of Lincoln?s life and helpful explanatory notes prepared by the late Lincoln scholar Don E. Fehrenbacher.
??The companion volume, also available in a bicentennial edition, is Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865.