Abraham LincolnThis volume presents nearly 250 of Lincoln's most important speeches, state papers and letters in their entirety. Here are not only the masterpieces- the Gettysburg Address, the Inaugural Addresses, the 1858 Republican State Convention Speech and the Emancipation Proclamation - but hundreds of lesser-known ones, including excerpts from the Lincoln-Douglas debates, letters to Grant, McClellan, Stanton and his wife, and various meditations, verses and fragments. |
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Contents
LINCOLNS DEVELOPMENT AS A WRITER | 1 |
Speech in the United States House | 27 |
Political Announcement | 53 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Abraham Lincoln A Da Capo paperback Quality Paperbacks Series |
| Author | Abraham Lincoln |
| Editor | Roy P. Basler |
| Edition | illustrated, unabridged, reprint |
| Publisher | Da Capo Press, 1990 |
| Original from | Pennsylvania State University |
| Digitized | 9 Feb 2011 |
| ISBN | 0306804042, 9780306804045 |
| Length | 888 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / United States / General |
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