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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... judgment of posterity . Each chapter seeks to understand the speeches ' claim on our memory , their reason for being . The book's collection of chapters will have succeeded if it makes at least some of the qualities of Lincoln's ...
... judgment of democratic citizens was increasingly in danger of giving way to " ready - made opinions . " Tocqueville ... judgments . He contended that despite the greatness of Henry Clay as a congressional Rhetorical Contexts 21 ·
... judgment is no doubt the consequence of Everett's preference for an older , Ciceronian eloquence — the sort of rhetorical display he would famously exemplify ( and unfavorably so , years later , in contrast to Lincoln's startling ...
... judgment so as to deepen and redirect it . At his best , he was able to use exaggeration to help his audiences grasp elusive facts and to promote their sober judgment as an extension of self - interest : The striking attitude ... in ...
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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 |