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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... cause of Temperance , " the true " cause of Patriotism . " 5 Goodrich's strange effort to supplant the Declaration shows us how volatile and protean the temperance cause could be . Its champions could fuse various political and moral ...
... cause , though he elides the sentiment with a re- solve not to judge . Beneath the grand placidity of the presentation , the con- flict roils from paragraph to paragraph . But Lincoln's temporary hint of anger is retrospective . As an ...
... cause of my country , deserted by all the world beside , and I standing up boldly and alone and hurling defi- ance at her victorious oppressors . Here , without contemplating consequences , before High Heaven and in the face of the ...
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Rhetorical Contexts | 1 |
On the Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions | 29 |
The Temperance Address | 58 |
Urheberrecht | |
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