The Portable Abraham Lincoln

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Celebrate the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth with this new edition of his greatest speeches and writings Abraham Lincoln endowed the American language with a vigor and moral energy that has all but disappeared from today's public rhetoric. Lincoln's writings are testaments of our history, windows into his enigmatic personality, and resonant examples of the writer's art. The Portable Abraham Lincoln contains the great public speeches-the first debate with Stephen Douglas, the "House Divided"speech, the Gettysburg Address, the Second Inaugural Address-along with less familiar letters and memoranda that chart Lincoln's political career, his evolving stand against slavery, and his day-to-day conduct of the Civil War. This edition includes a revised introduction, updated notes on the text, a chronology of Lincoln's life, and four new selections of his writing. Part 1 The emergence of Lincoln: to the poeple of Sangamo County, March 9th 1832 letter to Mrs Orville H. Browning, April 1st 1838 letter to Joshua F. Speed June 19th 1841 address to the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield Illinois January 27th 1838 Handbill replying to charges of infidelity July 31st 1846 letter to William H. Herndon February 1tst 1848 letter to Mary Todd Lincoln April 16th 1848 fragment on Niagra Falls notes on the pracice of law (1850). Part II Lincoln becomes a Republican: Fragment on Slavery (1854?) speech on the Kansas-Nebraska Act at Peoria, Illinois October 16, 1854 Letter to George Robertson, August 15, 1855 letter lo Joshua F. Seed, August 24, 1855 "house divided" speech at Springfield Illinois June 16th 1858.