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Book Review


Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President. By Harold Holzer. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004. 338 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-7432-2466-3.)
One feature of the current renaissance in Lincoln studies is the detailed attention afforded the greatest of his speeches. Garry Wills's striking analysis of the Gettysburg address (1992) has recently been joined by works on Lincoln's second inaugural address from James Tackach (2002) and Ronald C. White (2002). Now Harold Holzer makes a persuasive case for adding Abraham Lincoln's electrifying address at the New York Cooper Union in February 1860 to the list of his most potent speeches. . . .
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