TY  - BOOK
AU  - Briggs,John Channing
TI  - Lincoln's speeches reconsidered
SN  - 0801881064 (hardcover : alk. paper)
AV  - 002 E 457 L736B 2005
U1  - 973.7/092 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Baltimore
PB  - Johns Hopkins University Press
KW  - Lincoln, Abraham,
KW  - Presidents
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - Speeches, addresses, etc., American
KW  - History and criticism
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 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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