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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... practical reasons for relying on forms of persuasion that adumbrated—shadowed as well as clarified—the structure and substance of his thoughts. Separate reminiscences by Arnold and Herndon remark upon the effectiveness of the double ...
... practical reasons for relying on forms of persuasion that adumbrated — shadowed as well as clarified — the structure and substance of his thoughts . Separate reminiscences by Arnold and Herndon remark upon the effectiveness of the ...
... practical information quickly , though often so quickly it was superficial or defective.11 Good communication required forms of rhetoric that conveyed information in the light of general principles , not merely according to what was ...
... practical knowledge yielded , he wrote , a diminishing interest in meditation and calm.16 Studying the foundations of practical knowledge was strangely difficult . The enterprising man who made his fortune , and thus secured for himself ...
... practical reasoning for highly beneficial and immediate effects , the individ citizen's isolated facility for distinguishing between general ideas tended to weaken . The energetic curiosity that served democratic citizens ' practical ...
Inhalt
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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 |