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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... least some of the qualities of Lincoln's eloquence more available to a wider audience , and his speeches more likely to be seen with fresh eyes . To attempt such things , one must make choices . I do not discuss the Lincoln - Douglas ...
... least aspiring to make , literature that would be shared and remembered by the public . Darwin's works were thought to be literature . In collegiate reading lists of the second half of the nineteenth century , he joined the company of ...
... least studied and most applied . " Descartes ' philosophy of skepticism , which leads to the isolated thinker's reconstruction of a world of learning based on original principles , was what Americans rejected as received wisdom while ...
... least deviation from this spirit of forbearance is injurious to every interest , that of humanity included ? Amidst the violence of excited passions this generous and fraternal feeling has been sometimes disregarded .... I can not ...
... least carefully analyzed the conditions for perpetuating the peoples ' " affection " for constitutional self - government . Rather than assuming that the common sentiment could be maintained by government fiat or regulated speech , he ...
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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 |