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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... language can hardly contribute to our understanding of his eloquence . If we think we already know , as many students in schools and universities have been led to believe , that Lincoln was a racist and so not worth reading except for ...
... language to conceal his thought than Talleyrand ... could do ; and while guilty of no duplicity , could hide his thoughts and intentions more efficiently than any man with a historical record . " 8 The gist of the testimony we have from ...
... language needed to work on multiple levels in a variety of ways . Thus , his words were calculated , though calculation was not enough to make them successful . His subjects , methods , and purposes wove and shaped his arguments , as ...
... language not only influenced the sound and tenor of much formal speech and writing . Habitual reading of the Bible , silently and aloud , enforced the tendency to see a lesson in a story , a story in a lesson . The reading of Scripture ...
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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 |