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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... danger , he conceded , the question might reasonably be asked whether American political institu- tions , which had withstood numerous dangers for fifty years , were in new and perhaps mortal danger ( 1.113 ) . The problem , he argued ...
... danger of failing to detect Douglas's subtlety is so great and the facts so difficult to establish , the threat might have to be met with a contrary insin- uation of suspicion to ensure the public is alert . Pure deliberation is not ...
... danger , or what the danger is . It stirs him and sends him forth to find out the danger . And it exposes him to the possibility of error . It does not clearly sanction his idea to send Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to their execution ...
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Rhetorical Contexts | 1 |
On the Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions | 29 |
The Temperance Address | 58 |
Urheberrecht | |
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