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Lincoln at Cooper Union (Record no. 4003)

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010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
LC control number 2005283433
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780743224673
024 ## - OTHER STANDARD IDENTIFIER
Standard number or code 60456023
050 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number E440
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 973.7092
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Harold Holzer
245 1# - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Lincoln at Cooper Union
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Simon & Schuster
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 368 pages
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. "Lincoln at Cooper Union" explores Lincoln's most influential and widely reported pre-presidential address -- an extraordinary appeal by the western politician to the eastern elite that propelled him toward the Republican nomination for president. Delivered in New York in February 1860, the Cooper Union speech dispelled doubts about Lincoln's suitability for the presidency, and reassured conservatives of his moderation while reaffirming his opposition to slavery to Republican progressives.Award-winning Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer places Lincoln and his speech in the context of the times -- an era of racism, politicized journalism, and public oratory as entertainment -- and shows how the candidate framed the speech as an opportunity to continue his famous "debates" with his archrival Democrat Stephen A. Douglas on the question of slavery. The Cooper Union speech, which was carefully researched by Lincoln and refers often to the Founders and authors of the Constitution, is an antislavery lecture, capped by a ringing warning to would-be secessionists in the South. It reaches its climax with the assurance that "right makes might." Long held, inaccurately, to be an appeal to the conservatives, Holzer presents Lincoln's speech as a masterly combination of scholarship, a brief for equality and democracy, and a rallying cry to the country and the Republican party.Holzer describes the enormous risk Lincoln took by appearing in New York, where he exposed himself to the country's most critical audience and took on Republican senator William Henry Seward of New York, the front-runner, in his own backyard. Then he recounts the brilliant and innovative public relations campaign, as Lincolntook the speech "on the road" in his successful quest for the presidency.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element History - U.S.
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