This volume presents nearly 250 of Lincoln\'s most important speeches, state papers, and letters in their entirety. but the most telling and unforgettable of all American \'public\' writer-speakers, and it\'s never been cleaner than in this comprehensive edition.. . .
Alfred Kazin has written that Lincoln was not just the greatest writer among our Presidents .
Here are not only the masterpieces--the Gettysburg Address, the Inaugural Addresses, the 1858 Republican Convention Speech, the Emancipation Proclamation--but hundreds of lesser-known gems.
This volume presents nearly 250 of Lincoln\'s most important speeches, state papers, and letters in their entirety