{"product_id":"lincoln-at-cooper-union-1","title":"Lincoln at Cooper Union","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eby Harold Holzer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWinner of The Award of Achievement of The Lincoln Group of New York, and The Civil War Round Table's Barondess Award.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAward-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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e | 342 Pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44042670866492,"sku":"000641","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/hildene.org\/products\/lincoln-at-cooper-union-1","provider":"Hildene, The Lincoln Family Home","version":"1.0","type":"link"}