Abraham Lincoln
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Book Overview
Compiled in 1946, this essential collection includes nearly 250 of Lincoln's letters, speeches, and thoughts, including the oft-quoted Gettysburg Address, Emancipation Proclamation, and Inaugural Addresses. Furthermore, editor Roy P. Basler directs our attention to Lincoln's less-remembered -- but no less important -- words, including a lengthy denouncement of the Supreme Court's 1857 Dred Scott decision and numerous letters -- to Grant, McClellan, Stanton, and to his wife, Mary Todd. Basler has here culled the best of Lincoln's political, personal, and even poetic writings, adding extensive explanatory notes to help present-day Americans better understand the president who saved the Union.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0306804042
ISBN13:9780306804045
Release Date:August 1990
Publisher:Da Capo Press
Length:888 Pages
Weight:2.25 lbs.
Dimensions:1.8" x 5.4" x 8.5"
Customer Reviews
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Truly great writings
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
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.
A good one-volume source for the essential Lincoln writings
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
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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