The Greatest Speeches of Abraham Lincoln

SPECIFICATION: Publisher : Jaico Publishing House By :  Maureen Harrison (Author), Steve Gilbert (Author) Binding : Paperback Language : English   Edition : 2016 Pages :  152 pages Size : : 20 x 14 x 4 cm ISBN-13 :978-8184958515 DESCRIPTION: Edited by Maureen Harrison and Steve GilbertFor someone who claimed he had been educated by “littles” – a little now and a little then – Abraham Lincoln displayed a remarkable facility in his use of the written word.In the simple yet memorable eloquence of The Greatest Speeches of Abraham Lincoln, proclamations and personal correspondence are recorded in a representative collection of 22 documents.This volume contains, complete and unabridged, the Address Before the Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois (1838), which emphasized a theme Lincoln was to return to repeatedly, namely, the capacity of a people to govern themselves; the First Inaugural Address (1861), in which he appealed to the people of an already divided union for sectional