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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... later decades , would have something more positive to say about the fabled orator ; but Everett makes a point of distinguishing Clay's political from his rhetorical abilities : Clay's promise had not been fulfilled in the making of ...
... later moved Lincoln to say it was " the very best ... of an hour's length " he had “ ever heard . ” “ My old , with- ered , dry eyes , ” he wrote Herndon , " are full of tears yet " ( 1.448 ) .32 For him- self , Lincoln had chosen the ...
... later ar- ticulation of human instrumentality as a strange melding of choice and prov- idential power . But it informed his later discussions of necessity , and it con- tained some of the seeds of his final oratorical arguments about ...
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Rhetorical Contexts | 1 |
On the Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions | 29 |
The Temperance Address | 58 |
Urheberrecht | |
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