Gettysburg Address, The

This edition is from the 'Penguin Great Ideas' series and includes the following speeches: Peoria Speech 'House Divided' Speech Cooper Institute Address Farewell Address First Inaugural Address Gettysburg Address Response to Serenade, 1864 Second Inaugural Address Response to Serenade, 1865 Lincoln's Final Pu......more

Great words from a great man. Lincoln is justly famous as a great orator; his brief spell of home-tuition as a child, and his lifelong self-education, with his years of work in law and politics, really paid off! To start my review, here's just one example of his typically pithy yet vivid style: 'Mil......more

To those used to politics conducted via the sound-bite or even the tweet Lincoln's speeches offer a dramatic contrast; most of those contained in this book are rather lengthy and presume a significant attention span on the part of the audience. Lincoln's rhetoric reminded me somewhat of the literary......more

Lincoln's speeches are a true marvel - well written, passionate and driven by a high sense of justice. A great read for those interested in the American civil war or those interested in great orators. My only two criticisms are that some of these speeches drag on and that many of the logistics and/o......more

A collection of Honest Abe’s speeches that fills 129 pages, of which, one and a bit are actually The Gettysburg Address: still worth a read though......more