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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... late, these issues blended into one another. To appreciate the significance of this process, we need to resist our modern impatience and read slowly. One way to retard the rush toward closure is to return to the chronological study.
... resist in order to honor a deeper necessity. Of course, it is almost impossible to comment upon Lincoln's speeches without becoming involved in long-standing controversies over their silences, swerves, and declarations (especially those ...
... resist our modern impatience and read slowly . One way to retard the rush toward closure is to return to the chronological study of a variety of key speeches . As we submit to the discipline of reading Lincoln's sentences slowly and in ...
... resisting hagiography or , conversely , we risk flattening our expectations for political speech — unless we pursue the possibility that we are reading something that might be far more than an artifact of historical forces or a tool of ...
... resist in order to honor a deeper necessity . Of course , it is almost impossible to comment upon Lincoln's speeches without becoming involved in long - standing controversies over their silences , swerves , and declarations ...
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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 |