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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Briggs, John Channing, 1948- Lincoln's speeches reconsidered. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005 (OCoLC)607611997 |
Named Person: | Abraham Lincoln; Abraham Lincoln; Abraham Lincoln |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
John Channing Briggs |
ISBN: | 0801881064 9780801881060 |
OCLC Number: | 56509423 |
Description: | xi, 370 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Introduction : The mind of the persuader -- Rhetorical contexts -- The Lyceum address : "On the perpetuation of our political institutions" -- The temperance address : moral reform and emancipation-- The speech on the War with Mexico and the eulogy for Zachary Taylor : " injustice and heroic virtue " -- The eulogy for Henry Clay : persuasion and/or principle -- The Kansas-Nebraska speech : popular sovereignty and self-government -- The "house divided" speech : the logic of hopeful resolve -- Lecture on discoveries and inventions : self-government and inventions : self-government and arts of literacy -- The Milwaukee address : thorough farming and self-government -- The Cooper Union address : the empirical wager -- Presidential eloquence and political religion : governing "in the providence of God" -- The farewell address : "Let us confidently hope" -- The first inaugural, the Gettysburg address, and the second inaugural : providence and persuasion -- Postscript. The letter to Mrs. Bixby : secular scripture. |
Responsibility: | John Channing Briggs. |
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Abstract:
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.
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"Most books about Abraham Lincoln can be taken or left alone. This book merits attention for at least two important reasons: it takes a fresh and original look at the major speeches of Abraham Lincoln, and it manages to shed new light on some of the most familiar of all American texts."--Douglas L. Wilson, Knox College" Read more...
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