Lincoln Speeches
Civic Classics
$31.14
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
24 October 2012
Summary
The defining rhetoric of Abraham Lincoln - politician, president, and emancipator
Penguin presents a series of six portable, accessible, and-above all-essential reads from American political history, selected by leading scholars. Series editor Richard Beeman draws together the great texts of American civic life to create a timely and informative mini-library of perennially vital issues. Whether readers are encountering these classic writings for the first time, or brushing up in antic…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143121985 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143121987 |
| Author: | Abraham Lincoln, Allen C. Guelzo, Richard Beeman |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | The Penguin Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Edition: | 4th |
| Release Date: | 24 October 2012 |
| Weight: | 136g |
| Dimensions: | 187mm x 108mm x 14mm |
| Series: | Penguin Civic Classics |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
About The Author
Abraham Lincoln
Allen C. Guelzo is Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era and Director of Civil War Era Studies at Gettysburg College. He is the author of A Very Short Introduction- Lincoln, as well as two winners of the Lincoln Prize- Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation- The End of Slavery in America and Abraham Lincoln- Redeemer President.
Richard Beeman, the John Welsh Centennial Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania, has previously served as the Chair of the Department of History, Associate Dean in Penn’s School of Arts and Sciences, and Dean of the College of Arts of Sciences. He serves as a trustee of the National Constitution Center and on the center’s executive committee. Author of seven previous books, among themThe Penguin Guide to the United States ConstitutionandPlain Honest Men- The Making of the American Constitution, Professor Beeman has received numerous grants and awards including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, and the Huntington Library. His biography of Patrick Henry was a finalist for the National Book Award.
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