The Cambridge Companion To Abraham Lincoln

Author : Shirley Samuels
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1107484359

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The Cambridge Companion to Abraham Lincoln by Shirley Samuels Pdf

Abraham Lincoln's stature as an American cultural figure grows from his political legacy. In today's milieu, the speeches he delivered as the sixteenth president of the United States have become synonymous with American progress, values and exceptionalism. But what makes Lincoln's language so effective? Highlighting matters of style, affect, nationalism and history in nineteenth-century America, this collection examines the rhetorical power of Lincoln's prose - from the earliest legal decisions, stump speeches, anecdotes and letters, to the Gettysburg Address and the lingering power of the Second Inaugural Address. Through careful analysis of his correspondence with Civil War generals and his early poetry, the contributors, all literary and cultural critics, give readers a unique look into Lincoln's private life. Such a collection enables teachers, students, and readers of American history to assess the impact of this extraordinary writer - and rare politician - on the world's stage.

Author : Shirley Samuels
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107493445

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The Cambridge Companion to Abraham Lincoln by Shirley Samuels Pdf

Abraham Lincoln's stature as an American cultural figure grows from his political legacy. In today's milieu, the speeches he delivered as the sixteenth president of the United States have become synonymous with American progress, values and exceptionalism. But what makes Lincoln's language so effective? Highlighting matters of style, affect, nationalism and history in nineteenth-century America, this collection examines the rhetorical power of Lincoln's prose – from the earliest legal decisions, stump speeches, anecdotes and letters, to the Gettysburg Address and the lingering power of the Second Inaugural Address. Through careful analysis of his correspondence with Civil War generals and his early poetry, the contributors, all literary and cultural critics, give readers a unique look into Lincoln's private life. Such a collection enables teachers, students, and readers of American history to assess the impact of this extraordinary writer – and rare politician – on the world's stage.

Author : Cambridge University Press
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2003-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0521059704

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Abraham Lincoln and the American Commitment by Cambridge University Press Pdf

Author : Karen Orren,John W. Compton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107094666

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The Cambridge Companion to the United States Constitution by Karen Orren,John W. Compton Pdf

Offers an accessible, interdisciplinary, and historically informed introduction to the study of American constitutionalism.

Author : Michael Green
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1405198974

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A Companion to Abraham Lincoln by Michael Green Pdf

Author : Abraham Lincoln
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521897280

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Lincoln by Abraham Lincoln Pdf

A new scholarly edition of Lincoln's writings and speeches providing fresh insight into the man, the politician and political thinker.

Author : Jonathan Freedman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107107571

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The Cambridge Companion to Alfred Hitchcock by Jonathan Freedman Pdf

In this Companion, leading film scholars and critics of American culture and imagination trace Hitchcock's interplay with the Hollywood studio system, the Cold War, and new forms of sexuality, gender, and desire over his thirty-year American career.

Author : Andrew Hoberek
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781107048102

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The Cambridge Companion to John F. Kennedy by Andrew Hoberek Pdf

The Cambridge Companion to John F. Kennedy explores the creation, and afterlife, of an American icon.

Author : Terence Ball
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1107308437

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Lincoln by Terence Ball Pdf

A new scholarly edition of Lincoln's writings and speeches providing fresh insight into the man, the politician and political thinker.

Author : Nicholas Buccola
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780700622177

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Abraham Lincoln and Liberal Democracy by Nicholas Buccola Pdf

Though Abraham Lincoln was not a political philosopher per se, in word and in deed he did grapple with many of the most pressing and timeless questions in politics. What is the moral basis of popular sovereignty? What are the proper limits on the will of the majority? When and why should we revere the law? What are we to do when the letter of the law is at odds with what we believe justice requires? How is our devotion to a particular nation related to our commitment to universal ideals? What is the best way to protect the right to liberty for all people? The contributors to this volume, a methodologically and ideologically diverse group of scholars, examine Lincoln's responses to these and other ultimate questions in politics. The result is a fascinating portrait of not only Abraham Lincoln but also the promises and paradoxes of liberal democracy. The basic liberal democratic idea is that individual liberty is best secured by a democratic political order that treats all citizens as equals before the law and is governed by the law, with its limits on how the state may treat its citizens and on how citizens may treat one another. Though wonderfully coherent in theory, these ideas prove problematic in real-world politics. The authors of this volume approach Lincoln as the embodiment of this paradox--"naturally antislavery" yet unflinchingly committed to defending proslavery laws; defender of the common man but troubled by the excesses of democracy; devoted to the idea of equal natural rights yet unable to imagine a harmonoius, interracial democracy. Considering Lincoln as he attempted to work out the meaning and coherence of the liberal democratic project in practice, these authors craft a profile of the 16th president's political thought from a variety of perspectives and through multiple lenses. Together their essays create the first fully-dimensional portrait of Abraham Lincoln as a political actor, expressing, addressing, and reframing the perennial questions of liberal democracy for his time and our own.

Author : Allan Kulikoff
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190844653

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Abraham Lincoln and Karl Marx in Dialogue by Allan Kulikoff Pdf

Why put Abraham Lincoln, the sometime corporate lawyer and American President, in dialogue with Karl Marx, the intellectual revolutionary? On the surface, they would appear to share few interests. Yet, though Lincoln and Marx never met one another, both had an abiding interest in the most important issue of the nineteenth-century Atlantic world-the condition of labor in a capitalist world, one that linked slave labor in the American south to England's (and continental Europe's) dark satanic mills. Each sought solutions--Lincoln through a polity that supported free men, free soil, and free labor; Marx by organizing the working class to resist capitalist exploitation. While both men espoused emancipation for American slaves, here their agreements ended. Lincoln thought that the free labor society of the American North provided great opportunities for free men missing from the American South, a kind of "farm ladder" that gave every man the ability to become a landowner. Marx thought such "free land" a chimera and (with information from German-American correspondents), was certain that the American future lay in the proletarianized cities. Abraham Lincoln and Karl Marx in Dialogue intersperses short selections from the two writers from their voluminous works, opening with an introduction that puts the ideas of the two men in the broad context of nineteenth-century thought and politics. The volume excerpts Lincoln's and Marx's views on slavery (they both opposed it for different reasons), the Civil War (Marx claimed the war concerned slavery and should have as its goal abolition; Lincoln insisted that his goal was just the defeat of the Confederacy), and the opportunities American free men had to gain land and economic independence. Through this volume, readers will gain a firmer understanding of nineteenth-century labor relations throughout the Atlantic world: slavery and free labor; the interconnections between slave-made cotton and the exploitation of English proletarians; and the global impact of the American Civil War.

Author : Gilbert H. Muller
Publisher : Springer
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319315898

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Abraham Lincoln and William Cullen Bryant by Gilbert H. Muller Pdf

This definitive dual portrait offers a fresh perspective on Abraham Lincoln and William Cullen Bryant’s crucial role in elevating him to the presidency. The book also sheds new light on the influence that “Bryant and his class” (as Lincoln called the Radical Republican faction whose views Bryant articulated) wielded on the chief executive. How the cautious president and the preeminent editor of the Fourth Estate interacted—and how their ideological battle tilted gradually in Bryant’s favor—is the centerpiece of this study. A work of meticulous scholarship and a model of compression, Lincoln and Bryant is a watershed account of two Republicans fighting common enemies (and each other) during the Civil War era.

Author : Stephen Shapiro,Mark Storey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781316513002

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The Cambridge Companion to American Horror by Stephen Shapiro,Mark Storey Pdf

Taking Horror seriously, the book surveys America's bloody and haunted history through its most terrifying cultural expressions.

Author : Henry Bascom Rankin
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1290401535

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Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln by Henry Bascom Rankin Pdf

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Author : Dana Villa
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2000-11-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521645719

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The Cambridge Companion to Hannah Arendt by Dana Villa Pdf

A distinguished team of contributors examines the primary themes of Arendt's multi-faceted thought.