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���he first debate with Stephen Douglas, the ���ouse Divided���peech, the Gettysburg Address, the Second Inaugural Address���long 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.