The eloquent president
Subtitle: a portrait of Lincoln through his words
By: Ronald C. White, Jr.
Edition: Random House trade pbk. ed.
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 448
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, -- 1809-1865; Lincoln, Abraham, -- 1809-1865 -- Oratory; Lincoln, Abraham, -- 1809-1865 -- Correspondence; Presidents -- United States -- Biography; Eloquence -- Case studies; Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- United States -- Case studies; Speeches, addresses, etc., American -- History and criticism; American letters -- History and criticism; United States -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865
Genres: Correspondence.; Biography.; Case studies.
Notes: Originally published: New York : Random House, c2005.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [403]-426) and index.
Table of contents: title: "With a task before me greater than ... Washington" : farewell address at Springfield, February 11, 1861; title: "This, his almost chosen people" : speeches and remarks train trip from Springfield to Washington, February 11-23, 1861; title: "The mystic chords of memory" : first Inaugural address, March 4, 1861; title: "This is ... a people's contest" : message to Congress in special session, July 4, 1861; title: My paramount object in this struggle" :  reply to Horace Greeley, August 22, 1862; title: "God wills this contest" : meditation on the divine will, September 2(?), 1862; title: "We cannot escape history" : annual message to Congress, December 1, 1862; title: "You say you will not fight to free Negroes" : letter to the rally at Springfield, August 26, 1863; title: "This nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom" : Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863; title: "I claim not to have controlled events" : "little speech" to Albert Hodges, April 4, 1864; title: "With malice toward none; with charity for all" : second Inaugural address, March 4, 1865.