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Abraham Lincoln, the orator : penetrating the Lincoln legend
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- Creator
- Lois J. Einhorn
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Westport, CT : Greenwood Press, 1992
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- xx, 225 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 0313261687, 9780313261688
- OCLC
- ocm25130619
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [197]-218) and index.
- Pt. I: A rhetorical analysis of Abraham Lincoln's speaking. Lincoln speaks about speaking ; DId Lincoln practice what he preached? characteristics and development of Lincoln's speeches ; No laughing matter: Lincoln's use of humor as a rhetorical device ; Lincoln's first inaugural: peace and sword ; Evolving rhetorical stances on emancipation ; Lincoln's Gettysburg address: immediate failure and lasting success ; Conclusion: The making of a legend. -- Pt. II: Lincoln speaks out: texts of selected speeches. "Lyceum address" ; "Address before the Washington Temperance Society" ; "House divided" speech ; "Second lecture on inventions and discoveries" ; "Cooper Union address" ; "Farewell to Springfield" ; "First inaugural address" ; "Gettysburg address" ; "Second inaugural address". -- Chronology of selected major speeches