TY  - BOOK
AU  - Briggs,John Channing
ED  - Project Muse.
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Lincoln's Speeches Reconsidered
SN  - 9781421437477
AV  - E457.2 .B835 2005
KW  - Lincoln, Abraham.
KW  - Lincoln, Abraham,
KW  - Speeches, addresses, etc., American
KW  - fast
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International License; 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; Open Access
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/72307/
ER  -