[Gutenberg 14721] • Speeches & Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865

[Gutenberg 14721] • Speeches & Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865
Authors
Lincoln, Abraham
Tags
speeches , politics , abraham , etc. , history , classics , writing , 1809-1865 -- correspondence , addresses , american , 1809-1865 -- oratory , lincoln
Date
1949-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
Size
0.47 MB
Lang
en
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Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln gives us an inside look at the man and the president.

From the introduction:

"No man since Washington has become to Americans so familiar or so beloved a figure as Abraham Lincoln. He is to them the representative and typical American, the man who best embodies the political ideals of the nation. He is typical in the fact that he sprang from the masses of the people, that he remained through his whole career a man of the people, that his chief desire was to be in accord with the beliefs and wishes of the people, that he never failed to trust in the people and to rely on their support. Every native American knows his life and his speeches. His anecdotes and witticisms have passed into the thought and the conversation of the whole nation as those of no other statesman have done. He belongs, however, not only to the United States, but to the whole of civilized mankind."

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