Lincoln's Speeches ReconsideredJohns Hopkins University Press, 16.06.2005 - 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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... Clay's hold over his followers was " a miracle , " Lin- coln means to analyze it - with deference toward Clay's achievements but also with a resolve to perpetuate and expand them on the basis of an analysis of Clay's expansive ...
... Clay's principles prevailed . It is probably for this rea- son that Lincoln gives much more attention to Clay's advocacy of Greek and South American liberty than he does to the details of Clay's role in the later , messier Great ...
... Clay's power to wield them and their potential for carrying certain principles into practice , point the way for a successor to surpass Clay . Thus we come to understand Lincoln's praise of Clay's skill , while effacing the political ...
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Rhetorical Contexts | 1 |
On the Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions | 29 |
The Temperance Address | 58 |
Urheberrecht | |
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