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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... lines he had written but not delivered two years before? After losing the senatorial election to Douglas in 1858, why did he deliver academic lectures in Illinois and Wisconsin that seemed to have no connection with slavery? One ...
... lines of the Declaration of Independence . Yet the ease with which one could lose one's grip on the principles of selfgovernment , as Lincoln noted in his Lyceum Address , was not the simple result of moral failings or common ignorance ...
... lines he had written but not delivered two years before ? After losing the senatorial election to Douglas in 1858 , why did he deliver academic lectures in Illinois and Wisconsin that seemed to have no connection with slavery ? One ...
... lines . In Tocqueville's view , however , Americans were hobbling the prospects of their country's potential greatness because they were dangerously ambivalent toward political speech . This attitude filtered down into administrative ...
... lines , Webster seems to offer no proof of America's exceptional character except to say that it is self - evident . Yet the hyperbolic argumentation exploits the rich , seemingly intangible implications of common words . Rather than ...
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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 |