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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... thing that seems to have brought him to Springfield.5 Henry Whitney, who traveled with Lincoln for many years on the Illinois circuit in the 1850s, insisted that his friend's straightforwardness was real, but that it did not transmit ...
... thing that seems to have brought him to Springfield.5 Henry Whitney , who traveled with Lincoln for many years on the Illinois circuit in the 1850s , insisted that his friend's straightforwardness was real , but that it did not transmit ...
... thing more than another and for effect it was to make himself understood by all classes [ . ] He had great natural clearness and simplicity of statement and this faculty he cultivated with marked assiduity [ . ] He despised everything ...
... things he read , because his speeches gain much of their meaning from their imitation , parody , correction , and departure from other speeches and a variety of collateral texts . Hence much of the following analysis depends on 10 ...
... things , one must make choices . I do not discuss the Lincoln - Douglas 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 ...
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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 |