Dec 26, 2009

Addresses | Addresses

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Author: Abraham Lincoln
Type of Work: Formal speeches
Genres: Nonfiction, Essays
Subjects: Abolitionists, Nineteenth century, Slavery or slaves, Civil War, Democracy, Speeches, Presidents, Heads of state, Debates or debating

Critical Evaluation:

Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth President of the United States and author of the Gettysburg Address, has come to be recognized as a creative speaker with an individual and appealing style. He had a perceptive sense of humor and an awareness of human dignity and of the tragedy which occurs with the loss of it. His arguments were logically respectable and responsive to the problems of his times. Although he always retained a directness of statement and feeling which reflected the conditions of his boyhood in Kentucky and Indiana, he was by no means a merely...

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