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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... Resolve 8• Lecture on Discoveries and Inventions Self-Government and Arts of Literacy 9 • The Milwaukee Address Thorough Farming and Self-Government 10 • The Cooper Union Address The Empirical Wager 11• Presidential Eloquence and ...
... Resolve 8. Lecture on Discoveries and Inventions Self - Government and Arts of Literacy 9. The Milwaukee Address Thorough Farming and Self - Government 10. The Cooper Union Address The Empirical Wager ix xi 1 12 29 58 82 113 134 164 184 ...
... resolved every question into its primary elements, and gave up every point on his own side that did not seem to be invulnerable. One would think to hear him present a case in the court, he was giving his case away. He would concede ...
... resolved every question into its primary elements , and gave up every point on his own side that did not seem to be invulnerable . One would think to hear him present a case in the ... resolve that others 8. LINCOLN'S SPEECHES RECONSIDERED.
John Channing Briggs. additional force as the work of solitary resolve that others could identify in themselves — especially when Lincoln hit upon principles that disparate audiences , seeing that he understood their various points of ...
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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 |