Download or read book The Election of 1860 and the Administration of Abraham Lincoln written by Arthur Meier Schlesinger (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "most momentous" election in American history took place in a United States deeply divided over the issue of slavery. Each of the four major party candidates won electoral votes, and Republican Abraham Lincoln, who carried the votes of the northern states, emerged as the winner despite gathering less than 40 percent of the national popular ballot. Just weeks after Lincoln's election, the states of the Deep South voted to secede from the Union. In The Election of 1860 and the Administration of Abraham Lincoln, William E. Gienapp, a specialist in antebellum politics, describes the campaign and its aftermath. Book jacket.