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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... writing , and delivering speeches helped Lincoln develop the ideas that have so profoundly changed history . Briggs follows Lincoln's thought processes and careful attention to oratory , beginning with the Illinoisan's speech to the ...
... writing one hundred years ago, at a time when rhetorical training was still taken seriously, is careful not to reduce Lincoln's art to technique. Edward Pierce, a political friend during the war, recollected that Lincoln's simplicity ...
... writer conceded , oratory was flourishing : " The People love to hear [ speakers ] , and love to read their printed speeches whenever they get access to them . Hence , our public journals , which contain the speeches of our ablest ...
... writer , the passions are causes of and responses to the mind's notions of significance . The mind is itself influenced by intellectual passions that arise from its contact with subjects of " commanding interest . " Mind and passion may ...
... writing one hundred years ago , at a time when rhetorical training was still taken seriously , is careful not to reduce Lincoln's art to technique . Edward Pierce , a political friend during the war , recollected that Lincoln's ...
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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 |