Lincoln's Speeches Reconsidered John Channing Briggs.
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TextDescription: 1 online resource (1 online resource 370 pages)ISBN: 9781421437477Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham | Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 | Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Writing skill | Speeches, addresses, etc., American | Speeches, addresses, etc., American -- History and criticismGenre/Form: Electronic books. | Criticism, interpretation, etc. | Electronic books. Additional physical formats: Print version:: Lincoln's speeches reconsidered.LOC classification: E457.2 | .B835 2005Online resources: Full text available: | Item type | Current library | Call number | URL | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Open access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program.
Originally published as Johns Hopkins Press in 2005
Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-361) and index.
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.
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