Great Speeches (Dover Thrift Editions) | 
 enlarge | Author: Abraham Lincoln
Creators: John Grafton, Roy P. Basler
Publisher: Dover Publications
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 149444
Media: Paperback
Edition: Unabridged
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Pages: 128
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Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5 x 0.4
ISBN: 0486268721
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.7092
EAN: 9780486268729
ASIN: 0486268721
Publication Date: November 20, 1991
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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 5 sons, and the Second Inaugural Address (1865).
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 Fine Speeches by Lincoln September 4, 2007
This book is a collection of fine speeches by the beloved fith president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. Contains his most important and essential speeches which are kept pretty short because he's worried about being a man of the people. Says the presidents commands the Army and Navy. Borders on racism many times, but is kept decent without being profane. Recommended for students of history, politics and pilgrims. Abraham Lincoln was the only Pilgrim president, and for that he should be commended because they still own the Constitution and Magna Carta. He is no joke. Sure, maybe he can't get who he wanted, so he's stuck with second, third fourth rate people backing him as is the case with most coollege professors and elite groups.
 All the big Lincoln speeches June 10, 2007
For the person, from elementary school through college, studying Lincoln or the American Civil War, this book is a comprehensive guide to Lincoln's public face. From his early "stump" speeches through the Gettysburg Address, it's here, and very inexpensive.
Like the rest of the Dover Thrift Series, the book is not printed on the best paper nor with the best binding, but the font is quite readable and the material riveting, and the book is of high enough quality construction to allow you to annotate without ruining the obverse page.
A must have for Lincoln readers and speech teachers. February 24, 2006
This is the easiest and briefest way to be introduced to the speeches of Lincoln. Great resource for teachers and students.
I do, however, dare anyone today to try to read these speeches aloud (which was how they were delivered). Our poor understanding of the power of words and layered meanings makes reading Lincoln's speeches a challenge for anyone.
His greatness humbles and uplifts us May 30, 2005
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
There is something so moving , and even humbling about reading the words of Lincoln.
He is a politician of his time, and yet is above his time. He is a leader of the nation in the war to preserve the Union, yet he is compassionate and understanding of the defeated foe. He is a human being of great sympathy. And his words at Gettysburg are the most moving and profound statement made by an American about the essential meaning of the United States itself.
His greatness humbles and uplifts us.
This volume contains the essential words of the one who most Americans believe the greatest American of them all.
 ONE MAN OF PRINCIPLE... December 10, 2004
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Whatever else one may feel about President Lincoln (he has been both glorified as a martyr and demonized as an opponent of individual civil liberties), one cannot come away from this great little anthology of his speeches without seeing a principle-driven politician at his best. And the principle that we see driving Lincoln from his very earliest days through his final speeches (although by that time, preserving the Union had become an equally important theme) is that of the abolition of slavery.
Lincoln is clearly a man who believed in right and wrong. He sees slavery as the great evil of his day. From the beginning of his political involvement to the day he died, his speeches show him as a man determined to do away with this evil.
If only we had one man in our political arena as interested in principles today. We have'nt had one in our Federal Government since Paul Wellstone died. Too many are money and/or power driven rather than having any interest in principle.
I do not say this to despair.
I picked up my copy of this book this spring at the gift shop of the National Historic site for Lincoln's birthplace. Both the site (which is beautiful and well worth seeing if you're ever in Kentucky) and the book stand as testimonies to what one determined man of principles can do.
Read these speeches if you get a chance.
I recommend them highly.
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