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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... appeal to the heart in misleading ways . Genuine ora- tory needed to work " through the understanding and the conscience , " but even those mediating channels would be insufficient influences unless the orator appealed to the " American ...
... appeal to self - interest : Posterity has done nothing for us ; and theorise on it as we may , practically we shall ... appeal to the heart , not as though it were a mechanism of passion but because it is “ the great high road " to ...
... appealing to self - respect and pugilistic pride . It may be that in the form and substance of Lincoln's 1854 duel ... appeal to partisan energies , and his partisan claims draw attention to something be- yond self - interest . Douglas ...
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Rhetorical Contexts | 1 |
On the Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions | 29 |
The Temperance Address | 58 |
Urheberrecht | |
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