His Greatest Speeches: How Lincoln Moved the Nation

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AuthorDiana Schaub
PublisherTantor Audio
PublishedNov 30 2021
Book FormatAudio
ISBN-139798212125215
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CategoriesBiography & Autobiography > Presidents & Heads of State
LanguageEnglish

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An expert analysis of Abraham Lincoln's three most powerful speeches reveals his rhetorical genius and his thoughts on our national character. Abraham Lincoln, our greatest president, believed that our national character was defined by three key moments: the writing of the Constitution, our declaration of independence from England, and the beginning of slavery on the North American continent. His thoughts on these landmarks can be traced through three speeches: the Lyceum Address, the Gettysburg Address, and the Second Inaugural. The latter two are well-known, enshrined forever on the walls of the Lincoln Memorial. The former is much less familiar to most, written a quarter century before his presidency, when he was a twenty-eight-year-old Illinois state legislator. In His Greatest Speeches, professor Diana Schaub offers a brilliant line-by-line analysis of these timeless works, placing them in historical context and explaining the brilliance behind their rhetoric. The result is a complete vision of Lincoln's worldview that is sure to fascinate and inspire general audiences and history buffs alike. This book is a wholly original resource for considering the difficult questions of American purpose and identity, questions that are no less contentious or essential today than they were over two hundred years ago.

Author Bio

Diana J. Schaub is a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where her work is focused on American political thought and history, particularly Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, African American political thought, Montesquieu, and the relevance of core American ideals to contemporary challenges and debates. Concurrently, she is a professor of political science at Loyola University Maryland, where she has taught for almost three decades.

An expert in political philosophy, Dr. Schaub has lectured on a variety of topics and participated in conferences around the country. She has contributed chapters to multiple books on Shakespeare, liberal education, women, and religion, and she is the author of two books: “What So Proudly We Hail: The American Soul in Story, Speech, and Song,” coedited with Amy and Leon Kass (ISI Books, 2011), and “Erotic Liberalism: Women and Revolution in Montesquieu’s ‘Persian Letters’” (Rowman & Littlefield, 1995). Her monograph, “Emancipating the Mind: Lincoln, the Founders, and Scientific Progress” (AEI, 2018), is based on her remarks at the 2018 Walter Berns Constitution Day Lecture.

Dr. Schaub has also been published in the popular press, including in The Baltimore Sun, the Claremont Review of Books, Commentary, The Wall Street Journal, and The Weekly Standard.

Dr. Schaub has a PhD and an MA in political science from the University of Chicago. Her BA in political science is from Kenyon College.

Source: AEI.org