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How can this great, outstanding speech be limited to three brief lines. However, I wish the ENTIRE "farewell speech" (leaving Springfield going to DC as president elect)was included. Great book. Both should always be written in its entirety. In the book, it is only a partial speech. The same can be said herein for the Gettysburg Address. Always. No half measures even if this is a "thrift edition." It does Lincoln no great service and neither the readers.
It is a kind of lazy book in that regard.and, if it were the only source of Lincoln information, I would condemn the whole enterprise of publishing it. For what it is, the book is worth the time. But there's so much about Lincoln out there.that this little book allows one to focus directly upon Lincoln, the man.in his own words. The quotes, of course, are all out of context, but that doesn't necessarily make for bad reading. In fact, since many know the facts of Lincoln's life, the context can usually be filled in. It allows some space for one's own imagination to flourish and wander.rather than digesting yet another author's thesis. In a way, this unvarnished Lincoln, prompts a new kind of wonder.
Great.received as descrived by Vendor. I still think Abe Lincoln was the best President we ever had.you will be amazed of the way he expressedhimself.
While this short book of quotes and speeches was interesting, I believe you have to be a big fan of Lincoln to get much out of it. Young readers would be running to dictionaries to figure out what a lot of the passages mean, while Lincoln was a "wordy" speaker, some of the short and "down home" passages can make the reader imagine Lincoln speaking with a twinkle in his eye as he told a story.
It's tough to sum up Lincoln's "wit and wisdom" in a single volume, but this little book takes a valiant stab at it. Personally, I found it a nice work to accompany a more substantial biography or Civil War piece.
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