Lincoln's Speeches Reconsidered
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 wh...
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Johns Hopkins University Press
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
