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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... position was doubly problematic because his thought was often intricate, layered, controversial, in many ways not in conformity with common opinion. His self-presentation was proverbially direct and simple, yet also in some ways awkward ...
... position that is akin to laziness . We risk failing to preserve and pass on this living archive of great political speech . Lincoln's oratorical texts are so interesting that the more one reads them with curiosity , the more they ...
... position was doubly problematic because his thought was often intricate , layered , controversial , in many ways not in conformity with common opinion . His self - presentation was proverbially direct and simple , yet also in some ways ...
... position , until he stood by a single decisive point . In the courtroom , he was well known for his habit of dispensing with the citation of legal authorities , even when they would have helped him , for the sake of winnowing the facts ...
... position : " I could say nothing which I have not already said , and which is in print and accessible to the public . " His reluctance to speak was a form of eloquence ; it declared a resolve not to change a position he thought 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 |