{"product_id":"the-portable-abraham-lincoln-isbn-9780143105640","title":"The Portable Abraham Lincoln","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCelebrate the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth with this new edition of his greatest speeches and writings\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Abraham Lincoln endowed the American language with a vigor and moral energy that has all but disappeared from today's public rhetoric. Lincoln's writings are testaments of our history, windows into his enigmatic personality, and resonant examples of the writer's art. \u003ci\u003eThe Portable Abraham Lincoln\u003c\/i\u003e contains the great public speeches - the first debate with Stephen Douglas, the \"House Divided\" speech, the Gettysburg Address, the Second Inaugural Address - along with less familiar letters and memoranda that chart Lincoln's political career, his evolving stand against slavery, and his day-to-day conduct of the Civil War. This edition includes a revised introduction, updated notes on the text, a chronology of Lincoln's life, and four new selections of his writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.\u003c\/p\u003eThe Portable Abraham Lincoln\u003ci\u003eIntroduction by\u003c\/i\u003e Andrew Delbanco\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Note on the Texts\u003cbr\u003eChronology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Portable Abraham Lincoln\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Emergence of Lincoln\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo the People of Sangamo County, Mar. 9, 1832\u003cbr\u003eLetter to Mrs. Orville H. Browning, Apr. 1, 1838\u003cbr\u003eLetter to Joshua F. Speed, June 19, 1841\u003cbr\u003eAddress to the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois, Jan. 27, 1838\u003cbr\u003eHandbill Replying to Charges of Infidelity, July 31, 1846\u003cbr\u003eLetter to William H. Herndon, Feb. 1, 1848\u003cbr\u003eLetter to Mary Todd Lincoln, Apr. 16, 1848\u003cbr\u003eFragment on Niagara Falls (late Sept. 1848?)\u003cbr\u003eNotes on the Practice of Law (1850?)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLincoln Becomes a Republican\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFragment on Slavery (1854?)\u003cbr\u003eSpeech on the Kansas-Nebraska Act at Peoria, Illinois, Oct. 16, 1854\u003cbr\u003eLetter to George Robertson, Aug. 15, 1855\u003cbr\u003eLetter to Joshua F. Speed, Aug. 24, 1855\u003cbr\u003eSpeech on the Dred Scott Decision at Springfield, Illinois, June 26, 1857\u003cbr\u003e\"House Divided\" Speech at Springfield, Illinois, June 16, 1858\u003cbr\u003eFragment on the Struggle Against Slavery (c. July 1858)\u003cbr\u003eSpeech at Chicago, Illinois, July 10, 1858\u003cbr\u003eFirst Lincoln-Douglas Debate, Ottawa, Illinois, Aug. 21, 1858\u003cbr\u003eLetter to W. H. Wells, Jan. 8, 1859\u003cbr\u003eLecture on Discoveries and Inventions, Jacksonville, Illinois, Feb. 11, 1859\u003cbr\u003eAddress to the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Sept. 30, 1859\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Presidential Campaign\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAddress at Cooper Institute, New York City, Feb. 27, 1860\u003cbr\u003eLetter to Cornelius F. McNeill, Apr. 6, 1860\u003cbr\u003e\"Whiskers\" Letter to Grace Bedell, Oct. 19, 1860\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSecession and the Coming of the War\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePassage Written for Lyman Trumbull's Speech at Springfield, Illinois, Nov. 20, 1860\u003cbr\u003eLetter to Alexander H. Stephens, Dec. 22, 1860\u003cbr\u003eFarewell Address at Springfield, Illinois, Feb. 11, 1861\u003cbr\u003eSpeech at Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Feb. 22, 1861\u003cbr\u003eFirst Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1861\u003cbr\u003eLetter to Gen. Winfield Scott, Mar. 9, 1861\u003cbr\u003eLetter to Gen. Winfield Scott, Apr, 1, 1861\u003cbr\u003eLetter to Secretary of State William H. Seward, Apr. 1, 1861\u003cbr\u003eLetter to Gen. Winfield Scott, Apr. 25, 1861\u003cbr\u003eLetter to Gen. Winfield Scott, Apr. 27, 1861\u003cbr\u003eLetter to Ephraim D. and Phoebe Ellsworth, May 25, 1861\u003cbr\u003eMessage to Congress in Special Session, July 4, 1861\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCommander in Chief\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLetter to Gen. John C. Fremont, Sept. 2, 1861\u003cbr\u003eMessage to Congress, Mar. 6, 1862\u003cbr\u003eLetter to Gideon Welles, Mar. 10, 1862\u003cbr\u003eLetter to Horace Greeley, Mar. 24, 1862\u003cbr\u003eAddress on Colonization to a Committee of Colored Men, Washington, D.C., Aug. 14, 1862\u003cbr\u003eLetter to Horace Greeley, Aug. 22, 1862\u003cbr\u003eMeditation on the Divine Will (c. early Sept. 1862)\u003cbr\u003eProclamation Suspending the Writ of Habeas Corpus, Sept. 24, 1862\u003cbr\u003eLetter to Gen. George B. McClellan, Oct. 13, 1862\u003cbr\u003eLetter to Gen. George B. McClellan, Oct. 24, 1862\u003cbr\u003eMemorandum on Furloughs, Nov. 1862\u003cbr\u003eLetter to Carl Schurz, Nov. 24, 1862\u003cbr\u003eAnnual Message to Congress, Dec. 1, 1862\u003cbr\u003eMessage to the Army of the Potomac, Dec. 22, 1862\u003cbr\u003eFinal Emancipation Proclamation, Jan.1, 1863\u003cbr\u003eLetter to Gen. Joseph Hooker, Jan 26, 1863\u003cbr\u003eLetter to Erastus Corning and Others, June 12, 1863\u003cbr\u003eLetter to Samuel P. Lee, July 4, 1863\u003cbr\u003eLetter to Gen. George G. Meade, July 14, 1863\u003cbr\u003eOrder of Retaliation, July 30, 1863\u003cbr\u003eLetter to Dr. John P. Gray, Sept. 10, 1863\u003cbr\u003eApproval of Sentence of David M. Wright, Oct. 7, 1863\u003cbr\u003eLetter to Gen. John G. Foster, Oct. 17, 1863\u003cbr\u003eOpinion on the Draft (c. mid-Sept. 1863)\u003cbr\u003eLetter to Gen. George G. Meade, Oct. 12, 1863\u003cbr\u003eMemorandum on Testing Diller's Powder (Nov. 2, 1863, or after)\u003cbr\u003eAddress at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Nov. 19, 1863\u003cbr\u003eLetter to Gov. Edward Everett, Nov. 20, 1863\u003cbr\u003eProclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction, Dec. 8, 1863\u003cbr\u003eAmnesty for Emily T. Helm, Dec. 14, 1863\u003cbr\u003eLetter to Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, Feb. 1, 1864\u003cbr\u003eLetter to Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, Feb. 5, 1864\u003cbr\u003eLetter to Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, Mar. 1, 1864\u003cbr\u003eLetter to Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, Mar. 18, 1864\u003cbr\u003eLetter to Albert G. Hodges, Apr. 4, 1864\u003cbr\u003eDraft of Address for Sanitary Fair at Baltimore, Maryland (before Apr. 18, 1864)\u003cbr\u003eAddress at Sanitary Fair, Baltimore, Maryland, Apr, 18, 1864\u003cbr\u003eLetter to Sen. Charles Sumner, May 19, 1864\u003cbr\u003eLetter to Charles D. Robinson, Aug. 17, 1864\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFate\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMemorandum on Probable Failure of Re-election, Aug. 23, 1864\u003cbr\u003eDraft of Letter to Isaac M. Schermerhorn, Sept. 12, 1864\u003cbr\u003eResponse to Serenade, Washington, D.C., Nov. 10, 1864\u003cbr\u003eLetter to Mrs. Lydia Bixby, Nov. 21, 1864\u003cbr\u003eLetter to John Phillips, Nov. 21, 1864\u003cbr\u003eReply to a Southern Woman (Dec. 6, 1864, or before)\u003cbr\u003eSecond Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1865\u003cbr\u003eLetter to Thurlow Weed, Mar. 15, 1865\u003cbr\u003eSpeech to the 140th Indiana Regiment, Washington, D.C., Mar. 17, 1865\u003cbr\u003eResponse to Serenade, Washington, D.C., Apr. 10, 1865\u003cbr\u003eSpeech on Reconstruction, Washington, D.C., Apr. 11, 1865\u003cbr\u003eMemorandum Concerning Passes to Richmond, Apr. 13 or 14, 1865\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBiographical List of Lincoln's Correspondents\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"[An] excellent, thoughtfully presented selection . . . The ironic intelligence and sharp sense of purpose, the wit, lucidity, and emotional force come through with an undiminished and chastening power to make us think and feel.\"\u003cbr\u003e -Ric Burns, co-producer of PBS's \u003ci\u003eThe Civil War\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbraham Lincoln\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndrew Delbanco\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1952. Educated at Harvard, he has lectured extensively throughout the United States and abroad. He writes frequently on American culture for many national journals and papers, and  has co-directed a number of seminars for high school and college teachers at the National Endowment for the Humanities Center and under the sponsorship of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Among his previous works are \u003ci\u003eThe Death of Satan\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRequired Reading\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA New England Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Puritan Ordeal\u003c\/i\u003e, which received the 1990 Lionel Trilling Award at Columbia University, where he is Julian Clarence Levi Professor in the Humanities. Mr. Delbanco lives in New York City with his wife and two children.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304744636645,"sku":"NP9780143105640","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780143105640.jpg?v=1767741004","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-portable-abraham-lincoln-isbn-9780143105640","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}