Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War YearsThis biography is drawn from the six volume work on Lincoln and new research uncovered since the original publication. |
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... speech . If Lincoln had written out the speech the record of it would be accurate and responsible . But it was known that what he said , if written and printed , would be taken as wild - eyed and radical , that a published text of his ...
... speech . If Lincoln had written out the speech the record of it would be accurate and responsible . But it was known that what he said , if written and printed , would be taken as wild - eyed and radical , that a published text of his ...
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... speech that would have taken a half column had this unconsciously silly and blandly ignorant report in the Journal : " At two o'clock , the vast multitude being congregated around the stand , Mr. Lincoln began his speech . We have ...
... speech that would have taken a half column had this unconsciously silly and blandly ignorant report in the Journal : " At two o'clock , the vast multitude being congregated around the stand , Mr. Lincoln began his speech . We have ...
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... speech of it . " Then over the winter weeks of late 1859 and early 1860 he toiled on the speech , at the State Library sinking himself in the Congressional Globe , the Annals of Congress , fingering through old mellowed newspaper files ...
... speech of it . " Then over the winter weeks of late 1859 and early 1860 he toiled on the speech , at the State Library sinking himself in the Congressional Globe , the Annals of Congress , fingering through old mellowed newspaper files ...
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Wilderness Beginnings | 3 |
New Salem Days | 22 |
The Young Legislator | 40 |
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