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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... living archive of great political speech . Lincoln's oratorical texts are so interesting that the more one reads them with curiosity , the more they enlarge the field of analysis . They are themselves the best instruments for ...
... living . These duties include obligations toward what is inherited : the legacy of the fathers . Yet the defenders of that legacy are encouraged by " auspicious omens , " as heaven assists those who perform this work by acting upon ...
... sense , the story features the pitiable circumstance of a free man ripped from the protection of the laws . In another , it reveals the polity's weakness in living by the law that protects the freedman The Lyceum Address · 39.
John Channing Briggs. weakness in living by the law that protects the freedman and the accused , even the guilty , with due process . Reminding his audience of the victim's ambiguous racial identity ( as a mulatto with a Scottish name ...
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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 |