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Abraham Lincoln - Quotes, Quips, and Speeches by Abraham Lincoln; Gordon Leidner
Category: Gift
An Essential Book for Every Lincoln-PhileNearly 150 years after his death, the enduring legacy of a great president, an American success story, and the celebrated leader of the Civil War continues. Abraham Lincoln: Quotes, Quips, and Speeches is an illuminating and inspirational collection that captures ...Show more
Abraham Lincoln: Selected Writings by Abraham Lincoln
Category: Classics SPECIALS | Series: Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Classics
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) was the sixteenth president of the United States of America and one of the greatest statesmen in American history. Abraham Lincoln: Selected Writings collects more than fifty speeches, addresses, proclamations, and letters that Lincoln issued between 1838 and 1865. It include ...Show more
Gettysburg Address and Other Writings by Abraham Lincoln
Category: History | Series: Barnes and Noble Leatherbound Pocket Editions Ser.
On November 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln eulogised the Confederate and Union dead who had lost their lives in the Battle of Gettysburg only four months earlier. The Gettysburg Address, as it has come to be known, is a masterpiece of eloquence on the principles of liberty and freedom that define t ...Show more
Lincoln Speeches by Abraham Lincoln
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Penguin Civic Classics
In time for the upcoming election season, Penguin presents a series of six portable, accessible, and--above all--essential 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 t ...Show more
Lincoln on the Civil War : Selected Speeches by Abraham Lincoln
Category: History
This well-rounded selection of Abraham Lincoln's finest speeches combines the classic and obscure, the lyrical and historical, and the inspirational and intellectual to present a historical arc marking periods of the Civil War-crisis, outbreak, escalation, victory, and Reconstruction. Addressing the con ...Show more
Selected Speeches and Writings by Abraham Lincoln
Category: History | Series: Library of America Paperback Classics
?Alone among American Presidents, it is possible to imagine Lincoln, grown up in a different milieu, becoming a distinguished writer of a not merely political kind.?--Edmund Wilson Ranging from finely honed legal argument to wry and some sometimes savage humor to private correspondence and political rhe ...Show more
THE PORTABLE ABRAHAM LINCOLN by LINCOLN ABRAHAM
Category: History
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" conta ...Show more
The Annotated Lincoln by Abraham Lincoln
Category: Biography Memoir
No U.S. president has faced the problems Lincoln confronted, nor expressed himself with such eloquence on issues of great moment. Harold Holzer and Thomas Horrocks explore his writings on slavery, emancipation, racial equality, the legality of secession, civil liberties in wartime, and the meaning of th ...Show more
The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
The Address was delivered at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863, during the American Civil War, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated those of the Confederacy at the decisive Battle of Gettysburg ...Show more
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