02090nam a2200361u  450000100100000000300070001000500170001700700030003400800410003701000200007802000380009804000250013604300210016108200140018210000340019624000220023024501330025226001040038530000260048944000330051550001670054850000890071550000340080450000640083852005080090260000640141065000410147465100480151565100550156365100390161865100340165770000370169119670845 OCoLC 20190501164056.0ta090108s1989    nyu      b    001 0 eng    a88082723 //r934  a0940450437 (alk. paper) :c$35.00  aDLCcDLCdCTMdWaOLN  an-us---an-us-il00a973.52191 aLincoln, Abraham,d1809-1865.10aSelections.f198910aSpeeches and writings, 1832-1858 :bspeeches, letters, and miscellaneous writings, the Lincoln-Douglas debatescAbraham Lincoln.  aNew York, N.Y. :bLiterary Classics of the United States :bDistributed by the Viking Press,c1989.  axix, 898 p. ;c21 cm. 4aThe Library of America ;v45  aThe texts are selected (from The collected works of Abraham Lincoln, edited by Roy Basler, c1953, and its supplement, c1974) and annotated by Don E. Fehrenbacher.  a"Don E. Fehrenbacher wrote the notes and selected the texts for this volume"--P. [v]  a"First printing"--T.p. verso.  aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 858-876) and index.  aAbraham Lincoln measured the promise--and cost--of American freedom in lucid and extraordinarily moving prose, famous for its native wit, simple dignity of expression, and peculiarly American flavor. This volume, with Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, comprises the most comprehensive selection ever published. Over 240 speeches, letters, and drafts take Lincoln from rural lawyer to U.S. senatorial candidate, and chart his emergence as an eloquent antislavery advocate and defender of the Constitution.10aLincoln, Abraham,d1809-1865xPolitical career before 1861. 0aLincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858. 0aIllinoisxPolitics and governmentyTo 1865. 0aUnited StatesxPolitics and governmenty1849-1861. 0aUnited StatesxHistoryy1849-1877. 0aIllinoisxHistoryy1778-1865.1 aFehrenbacher, Don Edward,d1920-