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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... begins with commonplaces supplied by his political opponents , in a characteristic attempt to find common ground while seeking advantage for his case . This gesture enables him to begin speaking in the usual eulogistic mode without ...
... begins unspectacularly with a history of the Missouri Compromise and the legislation that followed it in 1850 and 1854. In large measure , the space he devotes to the history is an- other concession , in this instance to the limitations ...
... begins the speech , as he ends it , with “ high hope " and caution concerning the war : " [ N ] o prediction in regard to it is ventured . " Though the " progress of our arms " is evident , victory is unsecured . In the under- stated ...
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Rhetorical Contexts | 1 |
On the Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions | 29 |
The Temperance Address | 58 |
Urheberrecht | |
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