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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... Herndon and Jesse Weik , Herndon's Lincoln ( New York : Albert and Charles Boni , 1930 ) , 332 . 11. Herndon and Weik , 332 . 12. Edinburgh Review 113 ( 1861 ) , 557 . 13. Joseph Gillespie , letter to William Herndon ( December 1866 ) ...
... Herndon and Jesse Weik , Herndon's Lincoln ( New York : Albert and Charles Boni , 1930 ) , 325. Herndon's recollection is supported by Leonard Swett quoting J. L. Dickey ; see Douglas L. Wilson and Rodney O. Davis , eds . Herndon's ...
... Herndon and Jesse W. Weik , Herndon's Lincoln ( New York : Al- bert and Charles Boni , 1930 ) , 362 . 21. Bloomington Daily Pantagraph , April 9 , 1858. The so - called 1859 version elaborates much of the argument and tragicomic spirit ...
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Rhetorical Contexts | 1 |
On the Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions | 29 |
The Temperance Address | 58 |
Urheberrecht | |
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