Lincoln's moral vision
Subtitle: the second inaugural address
By: James Tackach.
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Jackson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Inauguration, 1865.; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Political and social views.; Presidents -- United States -- Inaugural addresses.; Speeches, addresses, etc., American -- History and criticism.; United States -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865.; United States -- Moral conditions.
Genres: Inaugural addresses.
Description: "On March 4, 1865, Abraham Lincoln gave his Second Inaugural Address, the final great speech of his three-decades public career. Delivered a little more than a month before the end of the Civil War and forty-one days before he was assassinated, the speech reveals Lincoln's coming to terms with vital moral and political issues with which he had grappled during his political life.".

"This book traces how the speech addresses three critical issues that obsessed him: slavery, race, and religion."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-172) and index.
Table of contents: title: Lincoln and slavery; title: Lincoln's racial attitudes; title: Lincoln's religion; title: Lincoln's war, 1861-62; title: Lincoln's war, 1863-65; title: Lincoln's inaugural Jeremiad; title: Epilogue.