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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... legislation , Douglas had ar- rayed his argument with powerful assumptions that operated like rhetorical tropes . Each challenged his opponents ' abilities to engage his remarks with- out losing their own concentration on the issue at ...
... legislation is both more lim- ited and more fundamental than it is for Douglas . He understands the new laws as extensions or abrogations of precedents , some more fundamental than others . Even the Constitution is illuminated and ...
... legislation in terms of their unpredictable , dangerous potential for combination . Legislation and court decisions have the capacity to reflect public attitudes or transform them utterly , just as tendencies in popular opin- ion can ...
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Rhetorical Contexts | 1 |
On the Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions | 29 |
The Temperance Address | 58 |
Urheberrecht | |
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