Lincoln's Speeches ReconsideredJHU Press, 3. 3. 2020 - Počet stran: 386 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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... means of making it incisive and effective . —Charles Smiley , " Lincoln and Gorgias " Lincoln's power of speech served and elucidated his thought as he found his way into American history . In reconsidering his speeches , this book ...
... means and ends that Lincoln has chosen to make his case . One more fairly obvious qualification is in order . In order to read Lincoln closely , we need to familiarize ourselves with more of the things he read , because his speeches ...
... means of concentrating his persuasive purWe know he carried Euclid's Elements on the circuit in the late 1840s and early 1850s and explicitly incorporated what he found there into his debates with Stephen Douglas.5 At the same time ...
... means of interpretation in an age that still put stock in arts of oral delivery , not just the elaborate schemes of physical gestures we see in some of the day's rhetorical handbooks . The art of reading was still in many ways an art of ...
... mean that Calhoun abjured all appeals to self - interest and imagination . In a tour de force of logic in one of his ... means of our indemnity ? The intention , then , is to compel Mexico to acknowledge that to be ours which we now hold ...
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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 |