Representative collection of 16 masterly orations, correspondence, including -House Divided- speech at the Republican State Convention, the First Inaugural Address, the Gettysburg Address, the Letter to Mrs. Bixby, expressing regret over the wartime deaths of her 5 sons, and the Second Inaugural Address.
Representative collection of 16 masterly orations, correspondence, including -House Divided- speech at the Republican State Convention, the First Inau...
"The Speeches of Abraham Lincoln" is an anthology of twenty memorable speeches and two famous letters from the life of Abraham Lincoln. The history of the country's most turbulent time is brought to us in the stirring words of our sixteenth president. An easy-to-use authoritative collection of President Lincoln's most memorable speeches, edited down to their essential elements, "The Speeches of Abraham Lincoln" includes: "A House Divided Against Itself," "The Cooper Institute Address," "The Emancipation Proclamation," "The Gettysburg Address," "A Day Of Thanksgiving," "The Second Inaugural...
"The Speeches of Abraham Lincoln" is an anthology of twenty memorable speeches and two famous letters from the life of Abraham Lincoln. The history of...
THE LIFE AND PUBLIC SERVICE OF GENERAL ZACHARY TAYLOR AN ADDRESS BY ABRAHAM LINCOLN The Life And Public Service of General Zachary Taylor An Address by Abraham Lincoln
THE LIFE AND PUBLIC SERVICE OF GENERAL ZACHARY TAYLOR AN ADDRESS BY ABRAHAM LINCOLN The Life And Public Service of General Zachary Taylor An Address b...
Lincoln made extraordinary efforts to attain knowledge while working on a farm, splitting rails for fences, and keeping store at New Salem, Illinois. He was a captain in the Black Hawk War, spent eight years in the Illinois legislature, and rode the circuit of courts for many years. His law partner said of him, "His ambition was a little engine that knew no rest." He married Mary Todd, and they had four boys, only one of whom lived to maturity. In 1858 Lincoln ran against Stephen A. Douglas for Senator. He lost the election, but in debating with Douglas he gained a national reputation that...
Lincoln made extraordinary efforts to attain knowledge while working on a farm, splitting rails for fences, and keeping store at New Salem, Illinois. ...
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...
Lincoln's Selected Writings includes a rich selection of his public and private letters, speeches, eulogies, proposals, debate transcriptions...
THIS IS NOT A HASTILY ASSEMBLED SCAN OR "FACSIMILE EDITION" OF THIS WORK. EVERY LETTER AND WORD OF THE ORIGINAL HAS BEEN RESET AND CAREFULLY PROOFED FOR ACCURACY. WITH OVER 40 ILLUSTRATIONS Ghosts come in many guises. There are ill-mannered and well-bred ghosts, malevolent and benevolent ghosts, there are jolly Christmas ghosts and evil Halloween Ghosts. There are ghosts who only appear on special days, some with dire warnings, some without. There are ghosts who are not ghosts at all, only the shadows and figments of madness. Sometimes ghosts appear to have a purpose. Sometimes they are a...
THIS IS NOT A HASTILY ASSEMBLED SCAN OR "FACSIMILE EDITION" OF THIS WORK. EVERY LETTER AND WORD OF THE ORIGINAL HAS BEEN RESET AND CAREFULLY PROOFED F...
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...
No American president before or since has faced the problems that confronted Abraham Lincoln when he took office in 1861. Nor has any president exp...
Noted Speeches of Abraham Lincoln is a collection of Lincoln's most celebrated speeches, including the Gettysburg Address, his Cooper Union speech, and more.
Noted Speeches of Abraham Lincoln is a collection of Lincoln's most celebrated speeches, including the Gettysburg Address, his Cooper Union speech, an...