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The Gettysburg Address is the most famous speech of U.S. President
Abraham Lincoln and one of the most quoted speeches in United
States history. It was delivered at the dedication of the Soldiers'
National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on the afternoon of
Thursday, November 19, 1863, during the American Civil War, four
and a half months after the Union armies defeated the Confederates
at the decisive Battle of Gettysburg. This beautiful, leatherette
gift edition also includes the story behind the writing of the
address.
Lincoln s Selected Writings includes a rich selection of his public
and private letters, speeches, eulogies, proposals, debate
transcriptions, addresses (including the First and Second
Inaugurals), and more. The texts are accompanied by explanatory
annotations, a detailed preface, a note on the texts, and a list of
abbreviations. Lincoln s writings are followed by contemporary
responses to him in poems, songs, and articles; representations of
Lincoln in modern imaginative and nonfiction writing; and
selections from recent cross-disciplinary studies of Lincoln
including discussions of his literary techniques and oratorical
style as well as examinations of his political evolution in new
cultural and social contexts. Among the many contributors are
Horace Greeley, Jesse Hutchinson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Karl Marx,
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Victor Hugo, and Walt
Whitman. Modern Views presents sixteen major interpretations of
Lincoln s life, work, and legacy carefully chosen to promote
discussion. The contributors are Carl Sandburg, Allen C. Guelzo,
James Oakes, Gillian Silverman, Richard N. Current, Harold Holzer,
Sean Wilentz, Eric Foner, Manisha Sinha, Robert A. Ferguson, Gabor
Boritt, James McPherson, Stephen Cushman, Faith Barrett, David S.
Reynolds, and Richard Carwardine and Jay Sexton. A chronology,
selected bibliography, and index are also included."
No American president before or since has faced the problems that
confronted Abraham Lincoln when he took office in 1861. Nor has any
president expressed himself with such eloquence on issues of great
moment. Lincoln's writings reveal the depth of his thought and
feeling and the sincerity of his convictions as he weighed the cost
of freedom and preserving the Union. Now for the first time an
annotated edition of Lincoln's essential writings examines the
extraordinary man who produced them and explains the context in
which they were composed. The Annotated Lincoln spans three decades
of Lincoln's career, from his initial political campaign for state
assemblyman in 1832 to his final public address on Reconstruction,
delivered three days before his assassination on April 15, 1865.
Included here are selections from his personal and political
letters, poetry, speeches, and presidential messages and
proclamations. In their generous annotations, Harold Holzer and
Thomas Horrocks explore Lincoln's thoughts on slavery,
emancipation, racial equality, the legality of secession, civil
liberties in wartime, and the meaning of the terrible suffering
caused by the Civil War. And they bring Lincoln's writings into the
ambit of Lincoln scholarship, to offer a broader appreciation of
his thoughts, words, and career. Numerous illustrations throughout
animate historical events and actors. Teachers, students, and
especially Lincoln enthusiasts will treasure this elegant volume
and keep it close at hand for reference and enjoyment.
A Lincoln scholar and performer brings the warmth, wisdom, and
humor of our sixteenth president alive in a collection of inspiring
quotations on achievement, responsibility, simplicity, and other
timeless values that form the foundation of a meaningful life.
"The Words Lincoln Lived By "is a stirring, inspirational treasury
of quotations from our greatest and most admired president.
Composed of Lincoln's profound observations--one for every week of
the year, each followed by a short commentary that provides
historical context--the book offers rich material for
interpretation, reflection, and spiritual guidance. In these pages,
Lincoln, famed as an orator, shares his wisdom on courage and
determination, compassion and compromise, tolerance and tact--the
essential traits that define character. The timeless impact of his
words is as powerful as the achievements that have helped to make
him an American hero.
The Great Emancipator's most important speeches, addresses, and
letters.
A hardcover copy of the draft, preliminary, and final versions of
Abraham Lincoln's January 1, 1863 Executive Order, the Emancipation
Proclamation, which declared the freedom of 3.1 million of the
nation's slaves.
In a major publishing event, this fascinating volume restores
and explains the most decisive campaign biography in U.S. history.
In 1860, the original book catapulted Abraham Lincoln to the White
House by dramatically warning of slavery's threat to American
democracy. More than a century later, the New York "Times" still
praised the original campaign biography as most authoritative and
influential. The book spawned an enduring legend: From poverty and
tragic loss, a small boy rises to become a mighty crusader for
justice.
In this radiant expanded edition, Boston Hill Press skillfully
restores and illustrates Mr. Lincoln's only major autobiographical
effort. (He secretly wrote the initial manuscript. Under his
direction, John Locke Scripps, a founder of the Chicago "Tribune,"
polished and expanded it into a national bestseller.) This restored
edition reveals the potent political messages and campaign
strategies that the candidate slyly wove into the story of his
life. This is no dusty reprint; pithy modern commentary provides
often breathtaking insights. Dramatic campaign speeches reverberate
again. Rare photographs and posters depict an intense, clean-shaven
youthful candidate, as he was then, before he became the bearded
sage of our history books. Readers gain fresh perspective on a
heartbreaking childhood and an early career as a fearless moral
crusader. (Of exceptional interest is a jaw-dropping campaign
appearance before a potentially hostile crowd of 12,000 people.
Against all odds, Mr. Lincoln brazenly defies incendiary
race-baiting by his opponent, the formidable incumbent U.S. Senator
Stephen Douglas.)
Above all this remarkable book reminds us that Abraham Lincoln
was a legend well before his presidential deeds. He was the
American experience incarnate: humble birth in a log cabin; Huck
Finn boyhood; self-made man; proverbial country lawyer; passionate
antiwar protester; hopelessly idealistic reformer; and hardened
crusader for justice. This book implicitly addresses the central
question of all elections: How do we recognize a great statesman,
before the glory? As such, "Vote Lincoln " is still mandatory
reading for modern voters seeking the next Abraham Lincoln.
This is a revised and expanded edition of the first restored
edition released for the Lincoln Bicentennial Year of 2009. This
expanded 2010 version contains more commentary and illustrations.
The volume has over 75 black-and-white photographs, engravings,
lithographs, and other illustrations. Several images depict Abraham
Lincoln's famous tanned complexion, earned by riding horses as a
country lawyer. Other images depict family, friends, opponents, and
historical events.
Representative collection of 16 masterly orations, correspondence, including "House Divided" speech at the Republican State Convention (1858), the First Inaugural Address (1861), the Gettysburg Address (1863), the Letter to Mrs. Bixby (1864), expressing regret over the wartime deaths of her five sons, and the Second Inaugural Address (1865).
From the most eloquent of American presidents, nearly 400 astute
observations on subjects ranging from women to warfare: Bad
promises are better broken than kept; Marriage is neither heaven
nor hell; it is simply purgatory; Whenever I hear anyone arguing
for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him
personally.
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