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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... overtones , bass notes , and arching themes of his oratorical achievement . Perhaps the greatest barriers to such a method of reading are preconceptions of Lincoln as saint or sinner . If we assume 2. LINCOLN'S SPEECHES RECONSIDERED.
John Channing Briggs. tions of Lincoln as saint or sinner . If we assume he could do no wrong , that his ends clearly justified all his words and actions , then the close study of his public language can hardly contribute to our ...
... assumed to be edification , which engaged the moral sense and the passions of the mind . The passions most worth cultivating were those capable of being " excited by any great subject of commanding 4 . LINCOLN'S SPEECHES RECONSIDERED •
... assumed the speaker had been frightened into shrill repetition . Lincoln's supporters might have wondered whether he was subtly shifting his ground . It was better to make the record as accessible as possible , he wrote , by printing it ...
... assumed to be occasions for making , or at 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 ...
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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 |