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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... labor and slavery . In fact , both subjects expand Lincoln's complex con- sideration of thorough labor . The steam plow , the age's the most impressive example of a labor - saving device in agriculture , stands ready to strengthen or ...
... labor- saving technology requires cerebration and experiment to be employed ef- fectively , so must human labor , whether it is work of the hired hand or of the one who hires him . Technology will not soon change the fact that " labor ...
... labor question to the matter of slavery carried risks . Labor unrest in the North had aggravated divisions within his audi- ences . Two months before the Milwaukee Address , when he had delivered a version of his remarks on labor to an ...
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Rhetorical Contexts | 1 |
On the Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions | 29 |
The Temperance Address | 58 |
Urheberrecht | |
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