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Building the myth : selected speeches memorializing Abraham Lincoln
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- Creator
- edited by Waldo W. Braden
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1990]
- ©1990
- Physical Details
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- v, 259 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 025201734X, 9780252017346
- OCLC
- ocm21043420
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-254) and index.
- A plain man of the people / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- A new impulse of patriotism for his sake / Henry Ward Beecher -- The character, life, and death of Abraham Lincoln / Phillip Brooks -- How shall the nation show its sorrow? / George Bancroft -- Under the permissive hand of God / Matthew Simpson -- Expression of gratitude for freedom / Frederick Douglass -- The scene in the silent and pathetic language of art / James A. Garfield -- Saviour of the nation / Shelby M. Cullom -- The outline of the greatness of his gigantic figure / Jonathan P. Dolliver -- Lincoln as an orator / William Jennings Bryan -- Celebrating Lincoln / Joseph H. Choate -- My tribute to the great emancipator / Booker T. Washington -- The supreme vision of Lincoln / Theodore Roosevelt -- Lincoln the orator / William E. Borah -- The sacred mystery of democracy / Woodrow Wilson
- The people's national tribute / William Howard Taft -- Lincoln's conceptions of liberty and justice / Elihu Root -- Abraham Lincoln, the inspirer of democracy / David Lloyd George -- Lincoln the man / Ida M. Tarbell -- Lincoln's faith in the people ; The struggle for human liberty ; Unfinished work of emancipation / Adlai E. Stevenson -- Abraham Lincoln and our unfinished business / Mario M. Cuomo