Briggs Lincoln's Speeches Reconsidered

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4214-3746-0
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 0 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Briggs, John Channing

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Politische Führung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Note on Sources
Introduction. The Mind of the Persuader
Chapter 1. Rhetorical Contexts
Chapter 2. The Lyceum Address
Chapter 3. The Temperance Address
Chapter 4. The Speech on the War with Mexico and the Eulogy for Zachary Taylor
Chapter 5. The Eulogy for Henry Clay
Chapter 6. The Kansas-Nebraska Speech
Chapter 7. The "House Divided" Speech
Chapter 8. Lecture on Discoveries and Inventions
Chapter 9. The Milwaukee Address
Chapter 10. The Cooper Union Address
Chapter 11. Presidential Eloquence and Political Religion
Chapter 12. The Farewell Address
Chapter 13. The First Inaugural, the Gettysburg Address, and the Second Inaugural
Postscript. The Letter to Mrs. Bixby
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Briggs, John Channing
John Channing Briggs is a professor of English at the University of California, Riverside.