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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... interested in helping audiences rediscover and act upon principles of self - government , which were informed by a particular understanding of human nature and ideas such as those set out by the opening lines of the Declaration of ...
... self - interest , somehow connecting them to higher versions of themselves . To do so , they would need to appeal to what Tocqueville called " self - interest well understood " —the widespread if unexamined belief that self - interest ...
... self - interest . Confronted with the proverbial impatience , credulity , and immense potential of his democratic audiences , his method suspended judgment so as to deepen and redirect it . At his best , he was able to use exaggeration ...
... self - evident qualities , we see that he is creating an interlocking series of conditions " bound up , " as the country is , with " great interests " that lift ordinary self - interest beyond the self . In one sense , the argument is ...
... self - interest and imagination . In a tour de force of logic in one of his speeches during the Mexican War , he showed how a rigorously systematic analysis of the circumstances past , present , and future — could emerge from a dialogue ...
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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 |