Abraham Lincoln: His Speeches And Writings

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"The most comprehensive and readable one-volume collection of Lincoln's writings ever published. " -David Herbert Donald. . This volume presents nearly 250 of Lincoln's most important speeches, state papers, and letters in their entirety. Here are not only the masterpiecesthe Gettysburg Address, the Inaugural Addresses, the 1858 Republican Convention Speech, the Emancipation Proclamationbut hundreds of lesser-known gems. Alfred Kazin has written that Lincoln was "not just the greatest writer among our Presidents ...but the most telling and unforgettable of all American 'public' writer-speakers," and its never been cleaner than in this comprehensive edition.

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Roy P. Basler was the author of The Lincoln Legend and co-editor of the authoritative eight-volume Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln.