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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... interest , which he insists is part of human nature . What is needed is moral principle that is not confined by self - interest . Self - interested devotion to the Union is a good thing , for instance , even if it accepts the idea of ...
John Channing Briggs. that includes self - interest and the recognition of self - interest , especially the power of one's own ambition to subdue the love of justice . In political terms , what seems to be merely a conflict between the ...
... interest is the largest interest . It also follows that that interest is most worthy of all to be cherished and cultivated - that if there be inevitable conflict between that in- terest and any other , that other should yield . ( 3.472 ...
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Rhetorical Contexts | 1 |
On the Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions | 29 |
The Temperance Address | 58 |
Urheberrecht | |
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