
In time for the upcoming election season, Penguin presents a series of six portable, accessible, andâabove allâessential reads from American political history, selected by leading scholars. Series editor Richard Beeman, author of The Penguin Guide to the U.S. Constitution, draws together the great texts of American civic life, including the founding documents, pivotal historical speeches, and ...
Series: Penguin Civic Classics (Book 4)
Paperback: 208 pages
Publisher: Penguin Books; 1 edition (August 28, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0143121987
ISBN-13: 978-0143121985
Product Dimensions: 4.3 x 0.6 x 7.4 inches
Amazon Rank: 648535
Format: PDF ePub fb2 djvu book
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upreme Court decisions, to create a timely and informative mini-library of perennially vital issues.As president, Abraham Lincoln endowed the American language with a vigor and moral energy that have all but disappeared from today's public rhetoric. His words are testaments of our history, windows into his enigmatic personality, and resonant examples of the writer's art. Renowned Lincoln and Civil War scholar Allen C. Guelzo brings together this volume of Lincoln Speeches that span the classic and obscure, the lyrical and historical, the inspirational and intellectual. The book contains everything from classic speeches that any citizen would recognizeâthe first debate with Stephen Douglas, the "House Divided" Speech, the Gettysburg Address, the Second Inaugural Addressâto the less known ones that professed Lincoln fans will come to enjoy and intellectuals and critics praise. These orations show the contours of the civic dilemmas Lincoln, and America itself, encountered: the slavery issue, state v. federal power, citizens and their duty, death and destruction, the coming of freedom, the meaning of the Constitution, and what it means to progress.