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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... Rhetorical Contexts 2 • The Lyceum Address “On the Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions” 3 • The Temperance Address Moral Reform and Emancipation 4 • The Speech on the War with Mexico and the Eulogy for Zachary Taylor Injustice ...
... Rhetorical Contexts 2. The Lyceum Address " On the Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions " 3. The Temperance Address Moral Reform and Emancipation 4. The Speech on the War with Mexico and the Eulogy for Zachary Taylor Injustice and ...
... rhetorical flourishes. Pronunciation was important: Lincoln underlined key words for emphatic delivery so as to drive home his points. More important, he combined logic with rhetorical flourishes in such ways that, in the words of ...
... rhetorical flourishes in such ways that , in the words of Charles Smiley , " the rhetorical forms that had been so severely censured as the marks of superficial sham and insincerity ... somehow proved themselves capable of sincerity ...
... rhetorical version of flexible steel . Lincoln's habit of concession was in this sense an instrument of art . It was a form of indirection that focused attention , in the end , on what he did not concede . It should not shock us to ...
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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 |