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The Portable Abraham Lincoln

By Abraham Lincoln
Introduction by Andrew Delbanco
Edited by Andrew Delbanco

By Abraham Lincoln
Introduction by Andrew Delbanco
Edited by Andrew Delbanco

By Abraham Lincoln
Introduction by Andrew Delbanco
Edited by Andrew Delbanco

By Abraham Lincoln
Introduction by Andrew Delbanco
Edited by Andrew Delbanco

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    About The Portable Abraham Lincoln

    Celebrate the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birth with this new edition of his greatest speeches and writings

    Abraham Lincoln endowed the American language with a vigor and moral energy that has all but disappeared from today’s public rhetoric. Lincoln’s writings are testaments of our history, windows into his enigmatic personality, and resonant examples of the writer’s art. The Portable Abraham Lincoln contains the great public speeches – the first debate with Stephen Douglas, the “House Divided” speech, the Gettysburg Address, the Second Inaugural Address – along with less familiar letters and memoranda that chart Lincoln’s political career, his evolving stand against slavery, and his day-to-day conduct of the Civil War. This edition includes a revised introduction, updated notes on the text, a chronology of Lincoln’s life, and four new selections of his writing.

    For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

    About The Portable Abraham Lincoln

    Celebrate the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birth with this new edition of his greatest speeches and writings

    Abraham Lincoln endowed the American language with a vigor and moral energy that has all but disappeared from today’s public rhetoric. Lincoln’s writings are testaments of our history, windows into his enigmatic personality, and resonant examples of the writer’s art. The Portable Abraham Lincoln contains the great public speeches – the first debate with Stephen Douglas, the “House Divided” speech, the Gettysburg Address, the Second Inaugural Address – along with less familiar letters and memoranda that chart Lincoln’s political career, his evolving stand against slavery, and his day-to-day conduct of the Civil War. This edition includes a revised introduction, updated notes on the text, a chronology of Lincoln’s life, and four new selections of his writing.

    For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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    About Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) was the 16th president of the United States and is regarded as one of America’s greatest heroes. He is best known for issuing the Emancipation Proclamation (1863), which declared slaves free, and for preserving the Union during… More about Abraham Lincoln

    About Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) was the 16th president of the United States and is regarded as one of America’s greatest heroes. He is best known for issuing the Emancipation Proclamation (1863), which declared slaves free, and for preserving the Union during… More about Abraham Lincoln

    Product Details

    Category: Political Figure Biographies & Memoirs | Classic Nonfiction | Civil War History | Essays & Literary Collections

    Paperback | $22.00
    Published by Penguin Classics
    Jan 27, 2009 | 400 Pages | 5-1/16 x 7-3/4 | ISBN 9780143105640

    Category: Political Figure Biographies & Memoirs | Classic Nonfiction | Civil War History | Essays & Literary Collections

    Ebook | $11.99
    Published by Penguin Classics
    Jan 27, 2009 | 400 Pages | ISBN 9781440656361

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    Praise

    “[An] excellent, thoughtfully presented selection . . . The ironic intelligence and sharp sense of purpose, the wit, lucidity, and emotional force come through with an undiminished and chastening power to make us think and feel.”
    -Ric Burns, co-producer of PBS’s The Civil War

    Table Of Contents

    The Portable Abraham LincolnIntroduction by Andrew Delbanco
    A Note on the Texts
    Chronology

    The Portable Abraham Lincoln

    The Emergence of Lincoln


    To the People of Sangamo County, Mar. 9, 1832
    Letter to Mrs. Orville H. Browning, Apr. 1, 1838
    Letter to Joshua F. Speed, June 19, 1841
    Address to the Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois, Jan. 27, 1838
    Handbill Replying to Charges of Infidelity, July 31, 1846
    Letter to William H. Herndon, Feb. 1, 1848
    Letter to Mary Todd Lincoln, Apr. 16, 1848
    Fragment on Niagara Falls (late Sept. 1848?)
    Notes on the Practice of Law (1850?)

    Lincoln Becomes a Republican

    Fragment on Slavery (1854?)
    Speech on the Kansas-Nebraska Act at Peoria, Illinois, Oct. 16, 1854
    Letter to George Robertson, Aug. 15, 1855
    Letter to Joshua F. Speed, Aug. 24, 1855
    Speech on the Dred Scott Decision at Springfield, Illinois, June 26, 1857
    “House Divided” Speech at Springfield, Illinois, June 16, 1858
    Fragment on the Struggle Against Slavery (c. July 1858)
    Speech at Chicago, Illinois, July 10, 1858
    First Lincoln-Douglas Debate, Ottawa, Illinois, Aug. 21, 1858
    Letter to W. H. Wells, Jan. 8, 1859
    Lecture on Discoveries and Inventions, Jacksonville, Illinois, Feb. 11, 1859
    Address to the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Sept. 30, 1859

    The Presidential Campaign

    Address at Cooper Institute, New York City, Feb. 27, 1860
    Letter to Cornelius F. McNeill, Apr. 6, 1860
    “Whiskers” Letter to Grace Bedell, Oct. 19, 1860

    Secession and the Coming of the War

    Passage Written for Lyman Trumbull’s Speech at Springfield, Illinois, Nov. 20, 1860
    Letter to Alexander H. Stephens, Dec. 22, 1860
    Farewell Address at Springfield, Illinois, Feb. 11, 1861
    Speech at Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Feb. 22, 1861
    First Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1861
    Letter to Gen. Winfield Scott, Mar. 9, 1861
    Letter to Gen. Winfield Scott, Apr, 1, 1861
    Letter to Secretary of State William H. Seward, Apr. 1, 1861
    Letter to Gen. Winfield Scott, Apr. 25, 1861
    Letter to Gen. Winfield Scott, Apr. 27, 1861
    Letter to Ephraim D. and Phoebe Ellsworth, May 25, 1861
    Message to Congress in Special Session, July 4, 1861

    Commander in Chief

    Letter to Gen. John C. Fremont, Sept. 2, 1861
    Message to Congress, Mar. 6, 1862
    Letter to Gideon Welles, Mar. 10, 1862
    Letter to Horace Greeley, Mar. 24, 1862
    Address on Colonization to a Committee of Colored Men, Washington, D.C., Aug. 14, 1862
    Letter to Horace Greeley, Aug. 22, 1862
    Meditation on the Divine Will (c. early Sept. 1862)
    Proclamation Suspending the Writ of Habeas Corpus, Sept. 24, 1862
    Letter to Gen. George B. McClellan, Oct. 13, 1862
    Letter to Gen. George B. McClellan, Oct. 24, 1862
    Memorandum on Furloughs, Nov. 1862
    Letter to Carl Schurz, Nov. 24, 1862
    Annual Message to Congress, Dec. 1, 1862
    Message to the Army of the Potomac, Dec. 22, 1862
    Final Emancipation Proclamation, Jan.1, 1863
    Letter to Gen. Joseph Hooker, Jan 26, 1863
    Letter to Erastus Corning and Others, June 12, 1863
    Letter to Samuel P. Lee, July 4, 1863
    Letter to Gen. George G. Meade, July 14, 1863
    Order of Retaliation, July 30, 1863
    Letter to Dr. John P. Gray, Sept. 10, 1863
    Approval of Sentence of David M. Wright, Oct. 7, 1863
    Letter to Gen. John G. Foster, Oct. 17, 1863
    Opinion on the Draft (c. mid-Sept. 1863)
    Letter to Gen. George G. Meade, Oct. 12, 1863
    Memorandum on Testing Diller’s Powder (Nov. 2, 1863, or after)
    Address at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Nov. 19, 1863
    Letter to Gov. Edward Everett, Nov. 20, 1863
    Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction, Dec. 8, 1863
    Amnesty for Emily T. Helm, Dec. 14, 1863
    Letter to Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, Feb. 1, 1864
    Letter to Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, Feb. 5, 1864
    Letter to Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, Mar. 1, 1864
    Letter to Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, Mar. 18, 1864
    Letter to Albert G. Hodges, Apr. 4, 1864
    Draft of Address for Sanitary Fair at Baltimore, Maryland (before Apr. 18, 1864)
    Address at Sanitary Fair, Baltimore, Maryland, Apr, 18, 1864
    Letter to Sen. Charles Sumner, May 19, 1864
    Letter to Charles D. Robinson, Aug. 17, 1864

    Fate

    Memorandum on Probable Failure of Re-election, Aug. 23, 1864
    Draft of Letter to Isaac M. Schermerhorn, Sept. 12, 1864
    Response to Serenade, Washington, D.C., Nov. 10, 1864
    Letter to Mrs. Lydia Bixby, Nov. 21, 1864
    Letter to John Phillips, Nov. 21, 1864
    Reply to a Southern Woman (Dec. 6, 1864, or before)
    Second Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1865
    Letter to Thurlow Weed, Mar. 15, 1865
    Speech to the 140th Indiana Regiment, Washington, D.C., Mar. 17, 1865
    Response to Serenade, Washington, D.C., Apr. 10, 1865
    Speech on Reconstruction, Washington, D.C., Apr. 11, 1865
    Memorandum Concerning Passes to Richmond, Apr. 13 or 14, 1865

    Biographical List of Lincoln’s Correspondents
    Index

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