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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... seems to have brought him to Springfield.5 Henry Whitney, who traveled with Lincoln for many years on the Illinois circuit in the 1850s, insisted that his friend's straightforwardness was real, but that it did not transmit his ...
... up every point on his own side that did not seem to be invulnerable. One would think to hear him present a case in the court, he was giving his case away. He would concede point after point to his adversary until it would.
... seem to force the slavery issue beginning in 1854? Why did he deliver the “House Divided” Speech in June 1858, using lines he had written but not delivered two years before? After losing the senatorial election to Douglas in 1858, why ...
... seem useless , even incorrect . Thus , we face the difficult task of reading Lincoln while resisting hagiography or , conversely , we risk flattening our expectations for political speech — unless we pursue the possibility that we are ...
... seems to have brought him to Springfield.5 Henry Whitney , who traveled with Lincoln for many years on the Illinois circuit in the 1850s , insisted that his friend's straightforwardness was real , but that it did not transmit his ...
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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 |