Lincoln's Selected Writings: A Norton Critical Edition (Norton

Lincoln's Selected Writings: A Norton Critical Edition (Norton Critical Editions)

Bancroft Prizeâ€“winning scholar David S. Reynolds edits and introduces a broad selection of Abraham Lincolnâ€™s writingsâ€•from his earliest days through his last.
Lincolnâ€™s Selected Writings includes a rich selection of his public and private letters, speeches, eulogies, proposals, debate transcriptions, addresses (including the First and Second Inaugurals), and more. The texts are accompanied by explanatory annotations, a detailed preface, a note on the texts, and a list of abbreviations.

Lincolnâ€™s writings are followed by contemporary responses to him in poems, songs, and articles; representations of Lincoln in modern imaginative and nonfiction writing; and selections from recent cross-disciplinary studies of Lincolnâ€•including discussions of his literary techniques and oratorical style as well as examinations of his political evolution in new cultural and social contexts. Among the many contributors are Horace Greeley, Jesse Hutchinson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Karl Marx, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Victor Hugo, and Walt Whitman.

â€œModern Viewsâ€ presents sixteen major interpretations of Lincolnâ€™s life, work, and legacy carefully chosen to promote discussion. The contributors are Carl Sandburg, Allen C. Guelzo, James Oakes, Gillian Silverman, Richard N. Current, Harold Holzer, Sean Wilentz, Eric Foner, Manisha Sinha, Robert A. Ferguson, Gabor Boritt, James McPherson, Stephen Cushman, Faith Barrett, David S. Reynolds, and Richard Carwardine and Jay Sexton.

A chronology, selected bibliography, and index are also included.
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Country USA
Brand W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer W. W. Norton & Company
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2014-09-11
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780393921793

Country	USA
Brand	W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer	W. W. Norton & Company
Binding	Paperback
ReleaseDate	2014-09-11
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780393921793

Lincoln's Selected Writings: A Norton Critical Edition (Norton Critical Editions)

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