
LINCOLN – Complete 7 Volume Edition: Biographies, Speeches and Debates, Civil War Telegrams, Letters, Presidential Orders & Proclamations
Speeches, Debates & DispatchesBy Theodore Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln, Carl Schurz, Francis F. Browne, Joseph ChoateLength92h 32m
About this audiobook
This seven-volume Lincoln collection offers an expansive documentary and interpretive portrait of the sixteenth president, joining biography, public oratory, debates, wartime telegrams, private letters, executive orders, and proclamations. Its range moves from forensic political argument and solemn constitutional prose to compressed military dispatches and reflective memorial assessment. Landmark texts—including the debates that defined Lincoln's national emergence and proclamations that transformed the Civil War's moral and legal stakes—appear alongside materials that illuminate the labor of presidential decision-making. The volume's contributors and subjects bring together statesmen, historians, editors, and later public interpreters shaped by the political culture of the nineteenth century and its continuing memory. Lincoln's own writings are framed by perspectives associated with reform, civic nationalism, Civil War remembrance, and the evolving historiography of American democracy. Theodore Roosevelt, Carl Schurz, Francis F. Browne, and Joseph Choate collectively extend the archive into reception history, revealing how Lincoln's example informed succeeding generations' debates about citizenship, leadership, union, and liberty. Recommended for students, historians, and general readers, this edition provides an unusual opportunity to encounter Lincoln as both political actor and enduring cultural figure. Its breadth invites close comparison between rhetoric and action, private deliberation and public principle, while fostering a rich dialogue among documents, biography, and commemoration.
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GenreHistory, Literary Classics
Length92 hrs 32 mins
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Publish dateDec 14, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1John Brent (Annotated)
2LINCOLN – Complete 7 Volume Edition: Biographies, Speeches and Debates, Civil War Telegrams, Letters, Presidential Orders & Proclamations
3Introduction by Theodore Roosevelt
4Introductory Note
5Abraham Lincoln, Biography by Carl Shurz
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6Abraham Lincoln, Biography by Joseph H. Choate
7The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln by Francis F. Browne (pt. 1)
8The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln by Francis F. Browne (pt. 2)
9The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln by Francis F. Browne (pt. 3)
10The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln by Francis F. Browne (pt. 4)
11The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln by Francis F. Browne (pt. 5)
12The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln by Francis F. Browne (pt. 6)
13The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln by Francis F. Browne (pt. 7)
14The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln by Francis F. Browne (pt. 8)
15The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln by Francis F. Browne (pt. 9)
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42Volume 3: The Lincoln-Douglas Debates I
43Lincoln's Speech at Springfield, June 17, 1858
44Douglas's Speech at Chicago
45Lincoln's Speech at Chicago, July 10, 1858
46Douglas's Speech at Bloomington, July 16, 1858
47Douglas's Speech at Springfield, July 17 1858
48Lincoln's Speech at Springfield, July 17, 1858
49Correspondence Between Lincoln and Douglas
50First Joint Debate, at Ottawa, August 21, 1858: