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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Additional Physical Format: | ebook version : |
Named Person: | Abraham Lincoln; Abraham Lincoln |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
John Channing Briggs |
ISBN: | 9781421437453 1421437457 9781421437477 1421437473 |
OCLC Number: | 1233306976 |
Notes: | Reprint. Originally published: 2005. |
Description: | xi, 370 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Acknowledgments Note on Sources Introduction. The Mind of the Persuader Chapter 1. Rhetorical Contexts Chapter 2. The Lyceum AddressChapter 3. The Temperance AddressChapter 4. The Speech on the War with Mexico and the Eulogy for Zachary TaylorChapter 5. The Eulogy for Henry ClayChapter 6. The Kansas-Nebraska SpeechChapter 7. The "House Divided" SpeechChapter 8. Lecture on Discoveries and InventionsChapter 9. The Milwaukee AddressChapter 10. The Cooper Union AddressChapter 11. Presidential Eloquence and Political ReligionChapter 12. The Farewell AddressChapter 13. The First Inaugural, the Gettysburg Address, and the Second InauguralPostscript. The Letter to Mrs. BixbyNotesIndex |
Series Title: | Hopkins Open Publishing encore editions. |
Responsibility: | John Channing Briggs. |
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Remarkably, Briggs . . . [has] managed to find new ground to harvest. -- Harold Holzer * Washington Post Book World * Briggs interprets Lincoln's references to Providence with a subtlety and intelligence I believe to be unsurpassed in Lincoln scholarship . . . A model of how better to understand our country and ourselves. -- Glen E. Thurow * Claremont Review of Books * Succeeds in illuminating the earlier speeches as elements in Lincoln's evolving ideology. -- Paul M. Zall * Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association * Lincoln's Speeches Reconsidered does a finer job than any of the other commentaries on Lincoln's speeches, and its reading will repay richly the serious student of Lincoln and of American political ideas in general. -- Allen Carl Guelzo * Indiana Magazine of History * John Channing Briggs has thought long, hard, and well about the speeches of Abraham Lincoln, and he has produced a book that deserves to be read. -- Stewart Winger * Register of the Kentucky Historical Society * Briggs enriches our understanding of Lincoln's pre-presidential speeches. -- David Zarefsky * Rhetoric Review * A valuable intellectual history of Lincoln's speeches and developing thought on the issues of democracy, slavery, and self-government. -- Brian Dirck * American Studies * Read more...

