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The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President
Simon & Schuster
November 2006
On Sale: November 7, 2006
Featuring: Abraham Lincoln
368 pages
ISBN: 0743299647
EAN: 9780743299640
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Lincoln at Cooper Union explores Lincoln's most influential
and widely reported pre-presidential address -- an
extraordinary appeal by the western politician to the
eastern elite that propelled him toward the Republican
nomination for president. Delivered in New York in February
1860, the Cooper Union speech dispelled doubts about
Lincoln's suitability for the presidency and reassured
conservatives of his moderation while reaffirming his
opposition to slavery to Republican
progressives.Award-winning Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer
places Lincoln and his speech in the context of the times --
an era of racism, politicized journalism, and public oratory
as entertainment -- and shows how the candidate framed the
speech as an opportunity to continue his famous "debates"
with his archrival Democrat Stephen A. Douglas on the
question of slavery.Holzer describes the enormous risk
Lincoln took by appearing in New York, where he exposed
himself to the country's most critical audience and took on
Republican Senator William Henry Seward of New York, the
front runner, in his own backyard. Then he recounts a
brilliant and innovative public relations campaign, as
Lincoln took the speech "on the road" in his successful
quest for the presidency.
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