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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... gain much of their meaning from their imitation , parody , correction , and departure from other speeches and a variety of collateral texts . Hence much of the following analysis depends on 10. LINCOLN'S SPEECHES RECONSIDERED.
John Channing Briggs. texts . Hence much of the following analysis depends on comparisons between Lincoln's formulations and those of his possible sources . Of course , those comparisons , no matter how illuminating , are frequently ...
... depends most of all on close readings of the printed speeches . Knowledge of the historical context of Lincoln's words is of course a vital part of this interpretive process , and what follows is not intended to supplant historical ...
... depends upon its being informed by a self - interest that has the potential to know itself to know its higher powers as well as its limitations . If Webster's reference to Washington " in the clear , upper sky " does not reveal to ...
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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 |