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Lincoln's speeches reconsidered

"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 more and more with the public as he spoke on such volatile subjects as mob rule, temperance, the Mexican War, slavery and its expansion, and the justice of a war for black freedom and American union."
Print Book, English, 2005
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2005
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xi, 370 pages ; 24 cm
9780801881060, 0801881064
56509423
Introduction : The mind of the persuader
Rhetorical contexts
The Lyceum address : "On the perpetuation of our political institutions"
The temperance address : moral reform and emancipation
The speech on the War with Mexico and the eulogy for Zachary Taylor : " injustice and heroic virtue "
The eulogy for Henry Clay : persuasion and/or principle
The Kansas-Nebraska speech : popular sovereignty and self-government
The "house divided" speech : the logic of hopeful resolve
Lecture on discoveries and inventions : self-government and inventions : self-government and arts of literacy
The Milwaukee address : thorough farming and self-government
The Cooper Union address : the empirical wager
Presidential eloquence and political religion : governing "in the providence of God"
The farewell address : "Let us confidently hope"
The first inaugural, the Gettysburg address, and the second inaugural : providence and persuasion
Postscript. The letter to Mrs. Bixby : secular scripture