This volume presents nearly 250 of Lincoln's most important speeches, state papers, and letters in their entirety. Here are not only the masterpieces—the Gettysburg Address, the Inaugural Addresses, the 1858 Republican Convention Speech, the Emancipation Proclamation—but hundreds of lesser-known gems. Alfred Kazin has written that Lincoln was "not just the greatest writer among our Presidents . . . but the most telling and unforgettable of all American 'public' writer-speakers," and it’s never been cleaner than in this comprehensive edition.
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Roy P. Basler was the author of The Lincoln Legend and co-editor of the authoritative eight-volume Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln.
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A good one-volume source for the essential Lincoln writings,
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This book, which is an abridgmment of Basler's larger 8-volume "Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln," is ideal for all students of Lincoln as a quick source for finding Lincoln's most well-known speeches, letters, and other documents. While other collections of Lincoln's writings do exist, Basler's is considered the most definitive. This one-volume edition of that collection makes the most popular and important Lincoln documents accessible to a larger group of people.
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These are the speeches and writings we need to read and remember as representative of the humility and unselfish dedication to our country of a truly great President.
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CONCERNING Lincoln's early life, the facts which he considered significant enough to relate in his autobiographical sketches written in 1859 and 1860 are still those which most concern a student of his writings, and there seems to be little need to do more than refer the reader to them among the selections in this volume. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Abraham Lincoln, Dred Scott, Executive Mansion, New York, House of Representatives, Van Buren, General Cass, General Taylor, Great Britain, Henry Clay, South Carolina, Rio Grande, Senator Douglas, Gettysburg Address, Major General, District of Columbia, Secretary of War, Almighty God, General Jackson, Fort Sumter, New Orleans, New Salem, Secretary of State, Secretary of the Treasury, Illinois Legislature New!
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CONCERNING Lincoln's early life, the facts which he considered significant enough to relate in his autobiographical sketches written in 1859 and 1860 are still those which most concern a student of his writings, and there seems to be little need to do more than refer the reader to them among the selections in this volume. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
unconstitutionally commenced, slavery therein Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Abraham Lincoln, Dred Scott, Executive Mansion, New York, House of Representatives, Van Buren, General Cass, General Taylor, Great Britain, Henry Clay, South Carolina, Rio Grande, Senator Douglas, Gettysburg Address, Major General, District of Columbia, Secretary of War, Almighty God, General Jackson, Fort Sumter, New Orleans, New Salem, Secretary of State, Secretary of the Treasury, Illinois Legislature New!
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- The Declaration Of Independence by Sam Fink on 4 pages
- Pilgrim's Progress (Children's Edition) by John Bunyan on page 5, and Index
- In the Footsteps of the Lincolns by Ida M. Tarbell on page 338, and Index
- on page 357, and page 603
- Lincoln at Gettysburg (Bcl 1 U S History) by William E. Barton in Index
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- The Historian's Lincoln: Pseudohistory, Psychohistory, and History by Gabor S. Boritt on 38 pages
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- Lincoln's Greatest Speech : The Second Inaugural by Ronald C. White Jr. on 8 pages
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