The eloquent president : a portrait of Lincoln through his words / Ronald C. White, Jr.
2005
E457.2 .W6155 2005 (Mapit)
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Title
The eloquent president : a portrait of Lincoln through his words / Ronald C. White, Jr.
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
1400061199 (alk. paper)
Publication Details
New York : Random House, c2005.
Language
English
Description
xxiii, 448 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 cm.
Call Number
E457.2 .W6155 2005
Dewey Decimal Classification
973.7/092 B
Summary
Historian Ronald White examines Lincoln's astonishing oratory and explores his growth as a leader, a communicator, and a man of deepening spiritual conviction. Examining a different speech, address, or public letter in each chapter, White tracks the evolution of Lincoln's rhetoric from the measured, lawyerly tones of the First Inaugural to the haunting, immortal poetry of the Gettysburg Address. As a speaker who appealed not to intellect alone, but also to the hearts and souls of citizens, Lincoln persuaded the nation to follow him during the darkest years of the Civil War. Through the speeches and what surrounded them, we see the full sweep and meaning of the Lincoln presidency.--Publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [403]-421) and index.
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Table of Contents
"With a task before me greater than ... Washington"
"This, his almost chosen people"
"The mystic chords of memory"
"This is ... a people's contest"
My paramount object in this struggle"
"God wills this contest"
"We cannot escape history"
"You say you will not fight to free Negroes"
"This nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom"
"I claim not to have controlled events"
With malice toward none: with charity for all."
"This, his almost chosen people"
"The mystic chords of memory"
"This is ... a people's contest"
My paramount object in this struggle"
"God wills this contest"
"We cannot escape history"
"You say you will not fight to free Negroes"
"This nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom"
"I claim not to have controlled events"
With malice toward none: with charity for all."