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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... Lincoln develop the ideas that have so profoundly changed history . Briggs follows Lincoln's thought processes and careful attention to oratory , beginning with the Illinoisan's speech to the Springfield Lyceum in 1838 and ranging to ...
... Lincoln's prepresidential and presidential years were not likely to be receptive to the full range of his political views. Lincoln needed strategies to reach them and to make his points without distorting his ideas. He needed to be ...
... Lincoln succeeded in his purpose for I think the great body of our People understood and appreciated him better than any man this Country ever produced[.]13 Later interpreters remind us that his “sledge hammer logic” drew much of its ...
... Lincoln and Gorgias " Lincoln's power of speech served and elucidated his thought as he found his way into American history . In reconsidering his speeches , this book joins the work of historians and other scholars who , amid the ...
... Lincoln was a racist and so not worth reading except for the sake of diagnosing his defective condition , the effort to read him carefully and extensively must seem useless , even incorrect . Thus , we face the difficult task of reading ...
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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 |