The Portable Abraham Lincoln
$43.99
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
18 May 2011
Summary
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—the first debate with Stephen Douglas, the…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143105640 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143105647 |
| Author: | Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Delbanco |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 18 May 2011 |
| Weight: | 274g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 130mm x 18mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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Critics Review
”[An] excellent, thoughtfully presented selection … The ironic intelligence and sharp sense of purpose, the wit, lucidity, and emotional force come through with an undiminished and chastening power to make us think and feel.”
-Ric Burns, co-producer of PBS’s The Civil War
About The Author
Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Delbanco was born in 1952. Educated at Harvard, he has lectured extensively throughout the United States and abroad. He writes frequently on American culture for many national journals and papers, and has co-directed a number of seminars for high school and college teachers at the National Endowment for the Humanities Center and under the sponsorship of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Among his previous works are The Death of Satan, Required Reading, A New England Anthology, and The Puritan Ordeal, which received the 1990 Lionel Trilling Award.
Delbanco is Julian Clarence Levi Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. He lives in New York City with his wife and two children.
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