Lincoln's Speeches ReconsideredJHU Press, 03.03.2020 - 386 Seiten 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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... becoming involved in long-standing controversies over their silences, swerves, and declarations (especially those that concern slavery), the meaning of which often turns on the question of timing. Why in the early years as a speaker did ...
... becoming involved in long - standing controversies over their silences , swerves , and declarations ( especially those that concern slavery ) , the meaning of which often turns on the question of timing . Why in the early years as a ...
... becomes the best authority on his own eloquence when we begin to see how his works of oratory are not only effective rhetorical gestures but also commentaries on themselves — on the means and ends that Lincoln has chosen to make his ...
... becomes a reference work that is not read in its entirety . I have tried to write a book for an audience of specialists and general readers interested in reading these pages through . 1 Rhetorical Contexts To study Abraham Lincoln then ...
... becomes visible that what makes the principal difference among the fortunes of men is intelligence . All that serves to fortify , enlarge , and adorn intelligence immediately brings a high price . The utility of knowledge is revealed ...
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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 |