Lincoln's Speeches ReconsideredJHU Press, 3 бер. 2020 р. - 386 стор. Originally published in 2005. Throughout the fractious years of the mid-nineteenth century, Abraham Lincoln's speeches imparted reason and guidance to a troubled nation. Lincoln's words were never universally praised. But they resonated with fellow legislators and the public, especially when he spoke on such volatile subjects as mob rule, temperance, the Mexican War, slavery and its expansion, and the justice of a war for freedom and union. In this close examination, John Channing Briggs reveals how the process of studying, writing, and delivering speeches helped Lincoln develop the ideas with which he would so profoundly change history. Briggs follows Lincoln's thought process through a careful chronological reading of his oratory, ranging from Lincoln's 1838 speech to the Springfield Lyceum to his second inaugural address. Recalling David Herbert Donald's celebrated revisionist essays (Lincoln Reconsidered, 1947), Briggs's study provides students of Lincoln with new insight into his words, intentions, and image. |
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... democratic citizenship, increasingly contentious debates over slavery, and the resultant sectional differences that seemed to be mollified (and yet were profoundly aggravated) by economic growth and the creation of new states. In one ...
... democratic citizenship , increasingly contentious debates over slavery , and the resultant sectional differences that seemed to be mollified ( and yet were profoundly aggravated ) by economic growth and the creation of new states . In ...
... Democratic Review lamented the decline of American oratory — its strange lack of great speakers despite the growth of the country and the surplus of false ones who " adopt too low a standard , and content themselves with a bare ...
... democratic distrust of rhetorical flourishes should give us pause . Democracy in America is full of evidence that early America's democratic audiences , despite an interest in rhetorical display , were highly suspicious of the ...
... democratic assembly . As there is never a class that has charged its representatives with asserting its interests , it is always to the whole nation in the name of the whole nation that one speaks . That enlarges thought and elevates ...
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The Temperance Address | 58 |
The Speech on the War with Mexico | 82 |
The Eulogy for Henry Clay | 113 |
The KansasNebraska Speech | 134 |
The House Divided Speech | 164 |
The Milwaukee Address | 195 |
Thorough Farming and SelfGovernment | 221 |
The Cooper Union Address | 237 |
Presidential Eloquence and Political Religion | 257 |
The Farewell Address | 281 |
The First Inaugural the Gettysburg Address | 297 |
POSTSCRIPT The Letter to Mrs Bixby | 328 |
Index | 363 |