Title
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Editor: Allen C. Guelzo, Gettysburg College
Editor: Richard Beeman
Introduction by: Allen C. Guelzo, Gettysburg College
Document Type
Book
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Description
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. [From the publisher]
ISBN
9780143121985
Publication Date
8-2012
Publisher
Penguin Books
City
New York
Department 1
Civil War Era Studies
Department 2
History
Copyright Note
This is the publisher's version of the work. This publication appears in Gettysburg College's institutional repository by permission of the copyright owner for personal use, not for redistribution.
Recommended Citation
Guelzo, Allen C. Lincoln Speeches. (New York: Penguin Books, 2012).
Required Publisher's Statement
Original version is available from the publisher at: http://www.penguin.com/book/lincoln-speeches-by-abraham-lincoln/9780143121985
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Comments
Attached is the introduction of Dr. Allen C. Guelzo's book, Lincoln's Speeches.