Selected Speeches and Writings

Abraham Lincoln: Selected Speeches and Writings



Ranging from finely honed legal argument to wry and sometimes savage humor to political rhetoric of unsurpassed grandeur, the writings collected in this volume are at once a literary testament of the greatest writer ever to occupy the White House and a documentary history of America in Abraham Lincoln's time. They record Lincoln's campaigns for public office; the evolution of his stand against slavery; his electrifying debates with Stephen Douglas; his conduct of the Civil War; and the great public utterances of his presidency, including the Gettysburg Address and the First and Second Inaugurals.



Don E. Fehrenbacher selected the texts and wrote the notes for this volume.