Abraham Lincoln

By Abraham Lincoln and Roy P. Basler

Book Overview

Compiled in 1946, this essential collection includes nearly 250 of Lincoln's letters, speeches, and thoughts, including the oft-quoted Gettysburg Address, Emancipation Proclamation, and Inaugural Addresses. Furthermore, editor Roy P. Basler directs our attention to Lincoln's less-remembered -- but no less important -- words, including a lengthy denouncement of the Supreme Court's 1857 Dred Scott decision and numerous letters -- to Grant, McClellan, Stanton, and to his wife, Mary Todd. Basler has here culled the best of Lincoln's political, personal, and even poetic writings, adding extensive explanatory notes to help present-day Americans better understand the president who saved the Union.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0306804042
• ISBN13: 9780306804045
• Release Date: August 1990
• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Length: 888 Pages
• Weight: 2.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 5.5" x 1.8"

Customer Reviews

Truly great writings

These are the speeches and writings we need to read and remember as representative of the humility and unselfish dedication to our country of a truly great President.

A good one-volume source for the essential Lincoln writings

This book, which is an abridgmment of Basler's larger 8-volume "Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln," is ideal for all students of Lincoln as a quick source for finding Lincoln's most well-known speeches, letters, and other documents. While other collections of Lincoln's writings do exist, Basler's is considered the most definitive. This one-volume edition of that collection makes the most popular and important Lincoln...