Lincoln's Speeches ReconsideredJHU Press, 2020 M03 3 - 386 páginas 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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... associated with the antebellum period and the Civil War . In his own way Lincoln aspired to a kind of eloquence that his circumstances called for and lacked . He contributed to an oratorical The Mind of the Persuader 3 ·
John Channing Briggs. stances called for and lacked . He contributed to an oratorical tradition that demonstrated its own insufficiencies even as it influenced him to create extraordinary examples of the oratorical art . Many of the ...
... called " self - interest well understood " —the widespread if unexamined belief that self - interest could reach beyond itself toward higher actions and principles : " I do not believe that the doctrine of self - interest such as it is ...
... called a composer of " modern literature " worthy of the company of Washington Irving and William Ellery Channing.28 Webster's work can still show a modern audience something important about how a speech for a ceremonial occasion could ...
... called Jackson the last of the Romans ; the Whigs were attempting to fix upon him the name of Caesar for his defiance of congressional wishes to protect the National Bank , and for his alleged corruption of federal offices . These ...
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The Temperance Address | 58 |
The Speech on the War with Mexico | 82 |
The Eulogy for Henry Clay | 113 |
The KansasNebraska Speech | 134 |
The House Divided Speech | 164 |
The Milwaukee Address | 195 |
Thorough Farming and SelfGovernment | 221 |
The Cooper Union Address | 237 |
Presidential Eloquence and Political Religion | 257 |
The Farewell Address | 281 |
The First Inaugural the Gettysburg Address | 297 |
POSTSCRIPT The Letter to Mrs Bixby | 328 |
Index | 363 |