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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... direct and simple, yet also in some ways awkward and strange. Anyone who reads the primary record in sequence runs into his paradoxical complexity. The friendliest audiences of Lincoln's prepresidential and presidential years were not ...
... direct and simple , yet also in some ways awkward and strange . Anyone who reads the primary record in sequence runs into his paradoxical complexity . The friendliest audiences of Lincoln's prepresidential and presidential years were ...
... direct in his political speech , he was also a calculating speaker , one who chose his words with great care . He carefully rationed even his expressions of humor according to his purposes . The general seriousness of most of his ...
... direct discussion of slavery , and without advocating abolition , Lincoln connects the controversy to the more general problem of perpetuating self - government under unprecedented circumstances in which " the basic principles of our ...
... direct statements , that slavery is an impending danger for all free men if they misunderstand those tasks . Indeed , we get the strong impression that neither freedom nor slavery is an assured inheritance in a self - governing polity ...
Inhalt
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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 |