 | The Gettysburg Gospel: The Lincoln Speech That Nobody Knows by Gabor Boritt
Buy used from: $0.59 Along with Garry Wills' Lincoln at Gettysburg, Boritt's book is a definitive analysis of Lincoln's most famous (but not his best--that honor goes to the Second Inaugural Address) speech.
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 | Lincoln's Speeches Reconsidered by John Channing Briggs
Buy new: $40.00 / Used from: $17.40 Focuses closely on Lincoln's pre-war speeches.
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 | Lincoln at Cooper Union by John A. Corry
Buy new: $31.99 / Used from: $32.91 Published almost simultaneously with Harold Holzer's Lincoln Prize-winning book on the same topic. Both are quite excellent. But books published by big presses get big attention, and books published by smaller presses get less attention.
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 | Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates that Defined America by Allen C. Guelzo
Buy new: $21.58 / Used from: $0.71 Excellent political history of what's arguably the nation's most famous debates. Gives Harry Jaffa's classic a run for its money.
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 | Lincoln at Cooper Union : The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President by Harold Holzer
Buy used from: $10.96 Holzer frames Lincoln's speech as a continuation of the Lincoln-Douglas debates. The detail is sometimes irrelevant and tedious.
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 | Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates by Harry V. Jaffa
Buy used from: $10.75 The classic treatment.
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 | Abraham Lincoln's Lost Speech by Abraham Lincoln
Buy new: $13.22 / Used from: $14.36 MAYBE a version of Lincoln's 1856 speech at the first Illinois State Republican Convention. Put together forty years afterwards from notes taken by a member of the audience, its accuracy is doubted by many. Still, worth a read.
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 | Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Nine Volumes. by Abraham Lincoln
The standard edition--but not too user-friendly.
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 | The Complete State of the Union Addresses of Abraham Lincoln (Dodo Press) by Abraham Lincoln
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $16.43 Some of Lincoln's best speechwriting.
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 | This Fiery Trial: The Speeches and Writings of Abraham Lincoln
Buy new: $25.95 / Used from: $14.99 If you haven't read much Lincoln, this is a good introduction.
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 | The Lincoln-Douglas Debates: The First Complete, Unexpurgated Text
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 | Lincoln: His Speeches and Writings by Roy Basler
Buy new: $26.60 / Used from: $8.84 A large single-volume collection
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 | Lincoln - Speeches & Writings (2 Volume Box Set) - 'Speeches & Writings 1832 - 1858', 'Speeches & Writings 1859 - 1865' by Don E. Fehrenbacher
Buy used from: $30.00 Not complete, but much more user-friendly than the standard Basler edition.
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 | The Portable Abraham Lincoln (Portable Library) by Abraham Lincoln
Buy new: $17.00 / Used from: $0.01 The best place to start.
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 | Selected Speeches and Writings: Abraham Lincoln by Abraham Lincoln
Buy used from: $7.45 A good overview.
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 | Lincolns Moral Vision: The Second Inaugural Address by James Tackach
Buy new: $14.30 / Used from: $5.00 Overshadowed by Ronald White's later book, Tackach's study deserves more attention than it's received.
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 | The Eloquent President: A Portrait of Lincoln Through His Words by Ronald C. White Jr.
Buy used from: $2.34 Offers insightful literary/stylistic analysis of Lincoln's speeches.
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 | Lincoln's Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural by Ronald C. White
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $3.94 White argues that the text is part speech, part sermon.
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 | Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America by Garry Wills
Buy used from: $0.01 Lincoln exegesis at its finest.
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 | Lincoln, Douglas, and Slavery: In the Crucible of Public Debate by David Zarefsky
Buy new: $25.00 / Used from: $16.98 An analysis of the debate's speeches from the perspective of 19th century rhetoric. Fascinating.
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