description: Lincoln measured the promise--and the cost--of American freedom in lucid and extraordinarily moving prose. Here are all the significant works, including the complete Lincoln-Douglas debates, dozens of speeches, hundreds of personal and political letters, communications to generals in the field, presidential messages and proclamations, poems, and private reflections on democracy, slavery, and the meaning of the Civil War's immense suffering.
language: English
title: Speeches and Writings
titlecomplete: Speeches and Writings
genres: Historical, History, Philosophy, Presidents, American History, Civil War, Grad School, Biography, Nonfiction, Politics
ratings_count: 226
publisher: Routledge; Library of America