| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.3

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.3 | The History Cooperative

Harold Holzer. Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech that Made Abraham Lincoln President. New York: Simon and Schuster. 2004. Pp. 338. $25.00.
Harold Holzer has done more than produce a book about a neglected Abraham Lincoln speech; he has shown Lincoln delivering it, close up, impressing an audience of staunch antislavery men, most of whom opposed making citizens of those they wished to emancipate. Had Lincoln failed to gain their support, his party might not have nominated him for the presidency.	1
The story has one complication. Shortly after Lincoln arrived in New York, he learned that the location of his speech had been changed from abolitionist Henry Ward Beecher's Plymouth Church in Brooklyn to New York's Cooper Union building. The information unsettled Lincoln. What he had prepared "for Mr. Beecher's church folks" would never work for a general Republican audience. To one of his hosts he complained, "I must re-write my address in the main" (p. 73). Throughout the weekend, Lincoln revised.	. . .

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