A compelling study of Abraham Lincoln and his administration draws on the president's own speeches and writings to chronicle four key years of Lincoln's life, as well as his political and moral evolution, from the perspective of the important events and crises of a seminal period in American history. 40,000 first printing.
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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.A study of Abraham Lincoln and his administration draws on the president's own speeches and writings to chronicle four key years of his life from the perspective of the important events and crises of a seminal period in American history.
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