Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings, Part 2: 1859-1865 by Abraham Lincoln
By Abraham Lincoln
Original yr of publication: 1989
Abraham Lincoln was once the best author of the Civil conflict in addition to its maximum political chief. His transparent, attractive, and every now and then uncompromisingly serious language perpetually formed the nation’s realizing of its such a lot bad clash. This quantity, in addition to its significant other, Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832–1858, includes the main entire choice ever released. Over 550 speeches, messages, proclamations, letters, and different writings—including the Inaugural and Gettysburg addresses and the relocating condolence letter to Mrs. Bixby—record the phrases and deeds with which Lincoln defended, preserved, and redefined the Union.
Don E. Fehrenbacher (1920–1997), quantity editor, used to be professor of background at Stanford college. He used to be the writer of numerous books, together with Prelude to Greatness: Lincoln within the 1850’s, The Dred Scott Case: Its value in American legislation and Politics, and Lincoln in textual content and Context.
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