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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... democratic distrust of rhetorical flourishes should give us pause . Democracy in America is full of evidence that early America's democratic audiences , despite an in- terest in rhetorical display , were highly suspicious of the ...
... democracy would extinguish the intellectual freedom that the democratic social state favors , so that the human spirit , having broken all the shackles that classes or men formerly imposed on it , would be tightly chained to the general ...
... Democratic newspaper's " pathetic and beautiful language , " which he soon contrasts with Clay's plainness . The Democratic eulogy is not , we begin to see , the speech that Clay's aversion to eulogy demands . Lincoln's long quo- tation ...
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Rhetorical Contexts | 1 |
On the Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions | 29 |
The Temperance Address | 58 |
Urheberrecht | |
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