
Lincoln at Cooper Union
The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President
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Mark Bramhall
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Harold Holzer
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.
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 a brilliant and innovative public-relations campaign, as Lincoln took the speech “on the road” in his successful quest for the presidency.
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The major flaw for me when the date of Lincoln’s Shooting and Sewards attack was provided, they were off by 6 months. It was APRIL 14 1865, not October. How such an error occurs is mind boggling. Overall an excellent book
Great but…..
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ok o am a real Lincoln fan
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There are just two things I regret about this Audible offering, one major and one minor.
The major one first. For me Mark Bramhall reads history among the best when he’s reading Holzer’s text. He has a good voice. He reads with intelligence, modulating his cadence and tone just where the text calls for it.
But for some reason, inexplicably, Bramhall changes his delivery radically when Holzer quotes someone. No intelligence, no modulating. Bramhall quotes people in a changed, inauthentic tone. Everyone — everyone — comes across declaiming, stentorian, like your uncle “sharing” his opinion on some subject after a few drinks. Sure, some of these 1860 pols and swells DID declaim. But all? And accents. Hearing Bramhall quote someone with that inauthentic tone AND with a bad English accent, well, it’s too much.
At first I felt annoyed by this reader’s trait, then very annoyed. If I weren’t so deeply interested in the subject, I would have given up on the book. Hasn’t someone at Audible or elsewhere coached Bramhall? For anyone who loves Lincoln and knows something about his ever-changing moods and personality, it’s just painful to hear his words declaimed in one-note bombast.
My minor concern: There’s nothing humble about Holzer when he tells us, too often, that other historians haven’t seen the importance of this subject, but he has, or that other historians have been wrong about this point, but he isn’t. Easily forgiven. Most of us are full of ourselves, but many of us aren’t so full of ourselves that we have to show it.
Important Book, Poor Narrator
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And the need to realize that owning another human being was wrong on many fronts
The Man
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In the last of the book audible Abe's whole cooper union speech is reenacted by Mark Bramhall.
It is so nice to listen to this book. Mark Bramhall is a wonderful Narrator.
Thank you to the Author Harold Holzer.
Great details many ppl don't know about.
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Excellent for Lincoln buffs.
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Entertaining
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...Still, this is a well-produced and insightful book. Abraham Lincoln was a brilliant speaker & embodied what a politician is (playing to the crowds skillfully).
Detailed documentation of an under examined speech
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Great concept
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The last hour, or so, is the appendix in which the full speech is delivered. Bramhall makes some strange accent choices, but his delivery as Lincoln is well done in my opinion.
Good book
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