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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... discoveries speech , Lincoln said that state fairs were occasions for bringing together " all which is sup- posed to not be generally known , because of recent discovery , or invention ” ( 3.472 ) . He then discussed the application of ...
... discoveries and inventions known to his audience . In this approach he also distanced himself from the old charges that he was an infidel , and he provided the partisan Bloomington Pantagraph with a good lead . Lincoln's " great ...
... Discoveries and Inventions at Cook's Hall April 26 , 1860 , upon his return from New York and one week before the state Republican convention in Chicago . The latter occasion was sponsored by the library society , just as Nicolay claims ...
Inhalt
Rhetorical Contexts | 1 |
On the Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions | 29 |
The Temperance Address | 58 |
Urheberrecht | |
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