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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... important: Lincoln underlined key words for emphatic delivery so as to drive home his points. More important, he combined logic with rhetorical flourishes in such ways that, in the words of Charles Smiley, “the rhetorical forms that had ...
... important consistencies in his oratorical and political career . And we are more likely to appreciate the deeper significance of his presidential transformation . Paradoxically , a close reading of Lincoln's speeches can contribute to ...
... important : Lincoln underlined key words for emphatic delivery so as to drive home his points . More important , he combined logic with rhetorical flourishes in such ways that , in the words of Charles Smiley , " the rhetorical forms ...
... important speeches closely related to the debates : the Dred Scott Speech of 1857 and the Chicago Speech of July 1858. The interesting Speech on the Sub - Treasury ( 1839 ) and the Address to the Scott Club ( 1852 ) are worthy of ...
... important principles that had generated technological prowess . Observe , Tocqueville warned , the moribund , ritualistic , and ornamental science of China , which fell into such disuse because its practitioners no longer remembered the ...
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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 |