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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... interest, and especially the anonymous senior historian who prepared many thoughtful suggestions for the final stage of revision. To my family, who were in my thoughts as I wrote these pages, I tender this book as a token of what is ...
... interest , and especially the anonymous senior historian who prepared many thoughtful suggestions for the final stage of revision . To my family , who were in my thoughts as I wrote these pages , I tender this book as a token of what is ...
... interest . " Mind and passion may be proverbially at odds , as Lincoln argued insistently early in his career ; but they are also potentially reciprocal . In the Review writer's world , they must both be substantially engaged if ...
... interest in reading , hearing , and revisiting poetical and persuasive speech . That interest is evident in the way Shakespeare traveled to the frontier , typically in the performance of set speeches , some of which had been printed in ...
... interests , it is always to the whole nation in the name of the whole nation that one speaks . That enlarges thought and elevates language . As precedents have little dominion ; as there are no longer privileges attached to certain ...
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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 |