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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... delivered it to the Republican convention . In the notes from Herndon's interview of Jesse Dubois , a Re- publican state official in the late 1850s , we have the intriguing if fanciful rec- ollection of Lincoln expressing some ...
... delivered a lecture on " American statesmanship . " An- other speaker entertained his audience with a lecture about France . In Chicago that year , Browning heard what he called a " lecture " on " the charac- ter and public services of ...
... delivered in Bloomington in 1858 , and the second in Jack- sonville on February 11 , 1859. Wayne Temple has plausibly argued that both texts are in fact parts of a single work , which Lincoln delivered , probably with variations and ...
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Rhetorical Contexts | 1 |
On the Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions | 29 |
The Temperance Address | 58 |
Urheberrecht | |
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