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Lincoln At Cooper Union
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Author : Harold Holzer
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2006-11-07
Lincoln At Cooper Union written by Harold Holzer and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-11-07 with History categories.
Winner of the Lincoln Prize Lincoln at Cooper Union explores Lincoln's most influential and widely reported pre-presidential address -- an extraordinary appeal by the western politician to the eastern elite that propelled him toward the Republican nomination for president. Delivered in New York in February 1860, the Cooper Union speech dispelled doubts about Lincoln's suitability for the presidency and reassured conservatives of his moderation while reaffirming his opposition to slavery to Republican progressives. Award-winning Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer places Lincoln and his speech in the context of the times -- an era of racism, politicized journalism, and public oratory as entertainment -- and shows how the candidate framed the speech as an opportunity to continue his famous "debates" with his archrival Democrat Stephen A. Douglas on the question of slavery. Holzer describes the enormous risk Lincoln took by appearing in New York, where he exposed himself to the country's most critical audience and took on Republican Senator William Henry Seward of New York, the front runner, in his own backyard. Then he recounts a brilliant and innovative public relations campaign, as Lincoln took the speech "on the road" in his successful quest for the presidency.
Lincoln At Cooper Union
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Author : John A. Corry
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2003
Lincoln At Cooper Union written by John A. Corry and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
On February 27, 1860, at New York's Cooper Union, an awkward Illinois lawyer politician in a rumpled poorly-fitting suit delivered a "political lecture" to a curious audience of the city's political and cultural elite. In less than three months, the Republican Party would nominate Abraham Lincoln as its Presidential candidate. Lincoln would later comment that "Cooper Union . . . made me President." This book, which includes previously unpublished background material, explains why this was the case. For, although it lacked the focused eloquence of his Gettysburg and Second Inaugural addresses, the speech's effect on United States history was just as great. Here is Lincoln at a crucial point in his life: the careful draftsman who insisted that his speech's text as delivered should not be changed "to a hair's breadth;" the teller of funny stories whose eyes displayed to a new acquaintance an "inexpressible depth of sadness;" and a man who publicly deprecated his political chances but whose self-reliance, self-esteem and "unbounded ambition" drove him toward the nation's highest office. Pulitzer Prize winner James McPherson praises this "wonderful book" as "an important contribution to Lincoln scholarship." Historian Walter Isaacson calls it "insightful" and explains: "Corry ́s narrative provides historical context, narrative drama and a cogent analysis of one of the seminal texts of our nation ́s history." And National Trust for Historic Preservation president Richard Moe describes the book as "wonderfully readable," and adds: "Corry has shed important new light on Lincoln ́s pivotal Cooper Union speech."
Lincoln At Cooper Union
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Author : Abraham Lincoln
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
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Abraham Lincoln
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Author : Abraham Lincoln
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1898
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Lincoln At Cooper Union
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Author : Abraham Lincoln
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-08-27
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On 27 February 1860, Abraham Lincoln gave this address at the Cooper Union in New York City. When he gave the speech, Lincoln was considered by many to be just a country lawyer. After he gave the speech, he soon became his party's nominee for president.
The Most Famous Speeches Of Abraham Lincoln
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Author : Charles River Charles River Editors
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2018-02-20
The Most Famous Speeches Of Abraham Lincoln written by Charles River Charles River Editors and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-20 with categories.
*Includes pictures *Includes excerpts from the speeches *Includes reactions to the speeches from newspaper reports and audience members *Includes online resources and bibliographies for further reading *Includes a table of contents Abraham Lincoln was still not considered a real option for the Republican nomination until he delivered a speech at New York City's Cooper Union in February 1860, just a few months before the Republicans' convention in May. Lincoln had gained a bit of a national profile by debating Stephen Douglas during an Illinois Senate Race in 1858, and though he lost that election, Lincoln continued discussing the same themes, most notably slavery and Dred Scott in his Cooper Union speech. In the hard-hitting speech, Lincoln both deflected Southern criticisms and attacked them, chiding would-be secessionists, "Your purpose, then, plainly stated, is that you will destroy the Government, unless you be allowed to construe and enforce the Constitution as you please, on all points in dispute between you and us. You will rule or ruin in all events." Although just 7,000 words long, the Cooper Union Address was almost universally praised in the North, and biographer Harold Holzer credited it for leading Lincoln to the presidency: "Had Abraham Lincoln failed at his do-or-die debut in New York, he would never have won his party's presidential nomination three months later, not to mention election to the White House that November. Such was the impact of a triumph in the nation's media capital. Had he stumbled, none of the challenges that roiled his presidency would ever have tested his iron will... He had arrived at Cooper Union a politician with more defeats than victories, but he departed politically reborn." When a crowd came to Gettysburg in November 1863 to commemorate the battle fought there 4 months earlier and dedicate a new national cemetery, they came to hear a series of speeches about the Civil War and the events of that battle. Today it may seem obvious to invite the president to such an occasion, but Lincoln was initially an afterthought, and though he did come to deliver remarks, he was not in fact the keynote speaker. Instead, the man chosen to give the keynote speech was Edward Everett, a politician and educator from Massachusetts. Everett had already been a Congressman, the 15th Governor of Massachusetts, Minister to Great Britain, and Secretary of State, and by the Civil War, he was considered perhaps the greatest orator in the nation, making him a natural choice to be the featured speaker at the dedication ceremony. Everett is still known today for his oratory, but more for the fact that he spoke for over two hours at Gettysburg immediately before President Lincoln delivered his immortal two-minute Gettysburg Address. Everett would later say, "I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes." At the time, however, Lincoln and many others present at the event thought his speech fell flat and was ultimately a failure that would be consigned to the dustbin of history. Lincoln wasn't given a chance to finish his work, but his thoughts and visions were eloquently saved for posterity in his second inaugural address, delivered a month before his death and considered one of America's greatest speeches. With the war nearing the end, Lincoln struck a conciliatory tone, reminding both sides that they prayed to the same God for victory and that neither side could divine God's will. "With malice toward none, with charity for all," Lincoln called for peace and reunion, his eye clearly on Reconstruction. Nobody will ever know if Lincoln could've managed the Reconstruction process in a better way than what actually unfolded, but in many respects, the second inaugural address was a fitting postscript of sorts to his presidency.
Early Speeches
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Author : Abraham Lincoln
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1898
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Abraham Lincoln
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Author : Abraham Lincoln
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1894
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A Comparative Study Of The Original Reception Of Abraham Lincoln S Cooper Union Speech And The Representations Which Have Been Made Of The Reception
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Author : Suzanne Worner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1963
A Comparative Study Of The Original Reception Of Abraham Lincoln S Cooper Union Speech And The Representations Which Have Been Made Of The Reception written by Suzanne Worner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1963 with categories.
Lincoln President Elect
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Author : Harold Holzer
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2008-10-21
Lincoln President Elect written by Harold Holzer and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-21 with History categories.
One of our most eminent Lincoln scholars, winner of a Lincoln Prize for his Lincoln at Cooper Union, examines the four months between Lincoln's election and inauguration, when the president-elect made the most important decision of his coming presidency -- there would be no compromise on slavery or secession of the slaveholding states, even at the cost of civil war. Abraham Lincoln first demonstrated his determination and leadership in the Great Secession Winter -- the four months between his election in November 1860 and his inauguration in March 1861 -- when he rejected compromises urged on him by Republicans and Democrats, Northerners and Southerners, that might have preserved the Union a little longer but would have enshrined slavery for generations. Though Lincoln has been criticized by many historians for failing to appreciate the severity of the secession crisis that greeted his victory, Harold Holzer shows that the presidentelect waged a shrewd and complex campaign to prevent the expansion of slavery while vainly trying to limit secession to a few Deep South states. During this most dangerous White House transition in American history, the country had two presidents: one powerless (the president-elect, possessing no constitutional authority), the other paralyzed (the incumbent who refused to act). Through limited, brilliantly timed and crafted public statements, determined private letters, tough political pressure, and personal persuasion, Lincoln guaranteed the integrity of the American political process of majority rule, sounded the death knell of slavery, and transformed not only his own image but that of the presidency, even while making inevitable the war that would be necessary to make these achievements permanent. Lincoln President-Elect is the first book to concentrate on Lincoln's public stance and private agony during these months and on the momentous consequences when he first demonstrated his determination and leadership. Holzer recasts Lincoln from an isolated prairie politician yet to establish his greatness, to a skillful shaper of men and opinion and an immovable friend of freedom at a decisive moment when allegiance to the founding credo "all men are created equal" might well have been sacrificed.