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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... course, the problem of perpetuating selfgovernment was connected, from the earliest stages of his career, with the anomaly of slavery's presence in a self-governing republic. In all his speeches, early and late, these issues blended ...
... course, it is almost impossible to comment upon Lincoln's speeches without becoming involved in long-standing controversies over their silences, swerves, and declarations (especially those that concern slavery), the meaning of which ...
... course , the problem of perpetuating self - government was connected , from the earliest stages of his career , with the anomaly of slavery's presence in a self - governing republic . In all his speeches , early and late , these issues ...
... course , the essayist conceded , the proposed cure might , if poorly understood , create new oratorical aberrations . Boldness and vividness might promote false views or appeal to the heart in misleading ways . Genuine oratory needed to ...
... course , Lincoln's reputation for simplicity meant that he was not a leading orator . In 1861 , the Edinburgh Review concluded , " [ I ] n a country where public speaking is one of the chief avenues to power , he [ Lincoln ] did not ...
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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 |