American Orations: Studies in American Political History; Edited with Introductions (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from American Orations: Studies in American Political History; Edited With Introductions

As a teacher of American history, I have found no more luminous texts on our political history than the speeches of the great men who have been able, in their discussions of public questions, to place before us a contem porary record of the history which they them selves were helping to make. To the careful student the secondary authorities can never supply the place of the great productions, the messages and speeches, which historic occasions have called forth. The earnest historical reader will approach these orations, not with the de sign of regarding them merely as specimens of eloquence or as studies in language, but as in dicating the great subjects and occasions of our political history and the spirit and motives of the great leaders Of that history. The orations lead the student to a review of the great strug gles in which the authors were engaged, and to new interest in the science of government from the utterances and permanent productions ofviii prefa CE TO the RE vised edition.

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