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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 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.
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 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.
The Great Emancipator's most important speeches, addresses, and
letters.
The defining rhetoric of Abraham Lincoln - politician, president,
and emancipator
Penguin presents a series of six portable, accessible, and--above
all--essential reads from American political history, selected by
leading scholars. Series editor Richard Beeman, author of "The
Penguin Guide to the U.S. Constitution," draws together the great
texts of American civic life to create a timely and informative
mini-library of perennially vital issues. Whether readers are
encountering these classic writings for the first time, or brushing
up in anticipation of the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act,
these slim volumes will serve as a powerful and illuminating
resource for scholars, students, and civic-minded citizens.
As president, Abraham Lincoln endowed the American language with a
vigor and moral energy that have all but disappeared from today's
public rhetoric. His words are testaments of our history, windows
into his enigmatic personality, and resonant examples of the
writer's art. Renowned Lincoln and Civil War scholar Allen C.
Guelzo brings together this volume of "Lincoln Speeches" that span
the classic and obscure, the lyrical and historical, the
inspirational and intellectual. The book contains everything from
classic speeches that any citizen would recognize--the first debate
with Stephen Douglas, the "House Divided" Speech, the Gettysburg
Address, the Second Inaugural Address--to the less known ones that
professed Lincoln fans will come to enjoy and intellectuals and
critics praise. These orations show the contours of the civic
dilemmas Lincoln, and America itself, encountered: the slavery
issue, state v. federal power, citizens and their duty, death and
destruction, the coming of freedom, the meaning of the
Constitution, and what it means to progress.
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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