With over 100,000 copies in print, here, with a new jacket for Lincolnas bicentennial, is the second volume in The Library of Americaas acclaimed, comprehensive edition of Lincolnas 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 Lincolnas 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.
aThe fullest and most reliable collection of Lincolnas writings ever published.a aThe New Republic