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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... influenced him to create extraordinary examples of the oratorical art . Many of the pressures working against ... influences unless the orator appealed to the " American character . " What distinguished the American audience , the ...
... influenced by intellectual passions that arise from its contact with subjects of " commanding interest . " Mind and passion may be proverbially at odds , as Lincoln argued insistently early in his career ; but they are also potentially ...
... influence upon his present and future audiences . Because those audiences were complex , spanning many political persuasions and electoral seasons , his language needed to work on multiple levels in a variety of ways . Thus , his words ...
... influenced by the specialized modern academy's segregation of fiction from nonfiction , a separation at least as presumptuous as the indiscriminate fusion of poetry and science . The literary culture of the day , however sparse it might ...
... influenced by older prose and poetry and an appreciation of logic . The ubiquity of the Bible in largely Protestant , antebellum American households undoubtedly influenced the discursive habits of the day . If we trust Tocqueville's ...
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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 |