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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John Channing Briggs. CONTENTS. Acknowledgments Note on Sources INTRODUCTION . The Mind of the Persuader 1 • Rhetorical Contexts 2 • The Lyceum Address “On the Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions” 3 • The Temperance Address Moral ...
John Channing Briggs. For my children CONTENTS Acknowledgments Note on Sources INTRODUCTION . The Mind of.
John Channing Briggs. CONTENTS Acknowledgments Note on Sources INTRODUCTION . The Mind of the Persuader 1. Rhetorical Contexts 2. The Lyceum Address " On the Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions " 3. The Temperance Address Moral ...
John Channing Briggs. passed away, the uncoordinated power of memory, mind, and passion to hold that experience in the imagination was inadequate. The principles of the revolution had to be revivified and adapted under arduous ...
... citations of Shakespeare draw from The Riverside Shakespeare , edited by G. Blakemore Evans ( Boston : Houghton Mifflin , 1997 ) . Lincoln's Speeches Reconsidered INTRODUCTION The Mind of the Persuader It xi Note on Sources xi.
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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 |