A New Birth of Freedom: Selected Writings of Abraham Lincoln

Fred Kaplan selects speeches, public letters, and papers in which Abraham Lincoln argued the case of the Union from his Illinois years through the Civil War. The volume includes the House Divided speech, the Cooper Union address, the two inaugural addresses, the Gettysburg Address, emancipation proclamations and related papers, and wartime correspondence with generals, editors, and critics of the administration. The through-line is Lincoln's language about slavery, majority rule, and executive power in a rebellion. It is an anthology of primary texts with editorial framing, not a cradle-to-grave biography.

Quarter-bound in dark-brown metallic buckram with light=brown Modigliani paper sides printed in black with an image and text.