Speeches and Writings 1859-1865
Author: Abraham Lincoln
Desc: With over 100 000 copies in print here with a new jacket for Lincoln's bicentennial is the second volume in The Library of America's acclaimed comprehensive edition of Lincoln's writings featuring over 550 speeches messages proclamations letters and other writings recording the words and deeds with which he defended preserved and redefined the Union. It includes the full texts of the Gettysburg Address and the First and Second Inaugurals as well as a detailed chronology of Lincoln's life and helpful explanatory notes prepared by the late Lincoln scholar Don E. Fehrenbacher. The companion volume also available in a bicentennial edition is Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858. ?The fullest and most reliable collection of Lincoln's writings ever published.?" ?The New Republic"