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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... debates over slavery, and the resultant sectional differences that seemed to be mollified (and yet were profoundly aggravated) by economic growth and the creation of new states. In one sense, the situation rewarded silence and ...
... debates over slavery , and the resultant sectional differences that seemed to be mollified ( and yet were profoundly aggravated ) by economic growth and the creation of new states . In one sense , the situation rewarded silence and ...
... debate , but as each man , after the meetings were over and the applause had died away , went to his home , his head rang with Lincoln's logic and appeal to manhood.22 A book about Lincoln's eloquence cannot rest on his strategies and ...
... debates . Their magnitude , and the amount of scholarly work already done on them , would turn attention away , if included here , from lesser - known works . I do not discuss several important speeches closely related to the debates ...
... debates with Douglas and organized its printing . He had edited many of his other speeches for publication in local journals . Numerous reports of his words had found their way into print . The record , Lincoln argued , was clear ...
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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 |