Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
With over 100,000 copies in print, here, with a new jacket for Lincoln's bicentennial, is the second volume in The Library of America's acclaimed, comprehensive edition of Lincoln's writings, featuring over 550 speeches, messages, proclamations, letters, and other writings recording the words and deeds with which he defended, preserved, and redefined the Union. It includes the full texts of the Gettysburg Address and the First and Second Inaugurals, as well as a detailed chronology of Lincoln's life and helpful explanatory notes prepared by the late Lincoln scholar Don E. Fehrenbacher.
The companion volume, also available in a bicentennial edition, is Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858.
?The fullest and most reliable collection of Lincoln's writings ever published.? ?The New Republic
Synopsis
Abraham Lincoln was the greatest writer of the Civil War as well as its greatest political leader. His clear, beautiful, and at times uncompromisingly severe language forever shaped the nation's
understanding of its most terrible conflict. This volume, along with its companion, Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858, comprises the most comprehensive selection ever published. Over 550 speeches, messages, proclamations, letters, and other writings--including the Inaugural and Gettysburg addresses and the moving condolence letter to Mrs. Bixby--record the words and deeds with which Lincoln defended, preserved, and redefined the Union.