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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... essays ( Lincoln Reconsidered , 1947 ) , Briggs's work provides students of Lincoln with fascinating new insight into his words , intentions , and oratorical power . This One EKE5 - JD7 - PXDQ Lincoln's Speeches Reconsidered T hroughout ...
... oratorical prominence in a time when Jacksonian democracy and rapid expansion had put new demands on public rhetoric, simultaneously inflating and diminishing expectations for public speech. Any attempt to create an edifying eloquence ...
... than any man with a historical record.”8 The gist of the testimony have from Lincoln's contemporaries indicates that he met the challenge of speaking we publicly under these conditions by crafting oratorical forms of great.
... oratorical thought. Lincoln's old friend Joshua Speed, who had no doubt about Lincoln's physical and moral courage, succinctly described the bravery in his ability to combine silence and frank statement. Lincoln “was cautious about ...
... oratorical distinction in the prepresidential years that may yet be underestimated . Confronting him were the seemingly intractable problem of slavery and the profound sectional and social fragmentation that followed the Era of Good ...
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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 |