Lincoln's Speeches ReconsideredJHU Press, 03.03.2020 - 386 Seiten 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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... argued , was its yearning to be moved toward certain kinds of conviction that perfected its character . In this context , persuasion was assumed to be edification , which engaged the moral sense and the passions of the mind . The ...
... argued insistently early in his career ; but they are also potentially reciprocal . In the Review writer's world , they must both be substantially engaged if eloquence is to call the American character to better versions of itself . As ...
... argued , was clear . Given the tensions of the period immediately after the election , his public repetition of parts of the record might easily have changed its apparent meaning . The wrong kind of emphasis , even upon its ...
... argued , would be the public's pondering of his words . To read one speech well , one must read many , not only Lincoln's but also his contemporaries ' . The advice Lincoln gives to the newspaper publisher suggests that a faithful ...
... argued , for a development of politics and sciences that would test and deepen their practitioners ' guiding principles . The new democracy was fostering the people's capacities to declare their own conclusions about most things , based ...
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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 |