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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John Channing Briggs. NOTE ON SOURCES For the sake of standardization and ease of reference , all citations from ... references are taken from the ubiquitous King James Ver- sion . All citations of Shakespeare draw from The Riverside ...
John Channing Briggs. Just what Lincoln wanted his audience to draw from that brief reference Basler does not say . Jaffa does not pursue the Lovejoy matter in any detail . William Lee Miller has recently argued that Lincoln's references ...
... reference to earlier laws and fundamental principles . As one of those wellsprings , the Constitution is more than a set of procedures in the service of liberty . The belief that the voice of the popular sovereign is the voice of a god ...
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Rhetorical Contexts | 1 |
On the Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions | 29 |
The Temperance Address | 58 |
Urheberrecht | |
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