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Series
Publisher
The Teaching Company
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Abraham Lincoln was one of America's greatest public orators. The cadence, argument and power he brought to his speeches, like those of the Gettysburg address almost every American learns in school, still stir the hearts of not only Americans, but countless millions around the world. This series of 24 lectures examines Lincoln's rhetoric - the public messages in which he evolved his views on slavery and the preservation of the Union and by which he...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When John Hay died in 1905, he was one of the most famous men in the world and one of the most highly regarded. Hay enjoyed remarkable success in public and private life: He was Abraham Lincoln's private secretary during the Civil War, and thereafter he was a popular poet, novelist, newspaper, editor, highly esteemed historian and biographer, diplomat, businessman, and secretary of state until his death. Author Philip McFarland presents both the...
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