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Special offer. The Essential Abraham Lincoln

Speeches - Letters - Biography

Read by Peter Marinker, and Garrick Hagon

The Essential Abraham Lincoln

Special offer. The Essential Abraham Lincoln

Speeches - Letters - Biography

Read by Peter Marinker, and Garrick Hagon

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Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) was one of the most influential presidents of the USA, uniting the country and abolishing slavery after a terrible civil war. On the 200th anniversary of his birth, his life and works are presented here in an easy introductory form. Through a balance of biography and the key speeches and letters, the man is brought to life, demonstrating his keen intelligence and determination, which was maintained all the way to his tragic death at the hand of an assassin.

  • Release date: 5th Jan 2009
  • Label: Naxos AudioBooks
  • Catalogue number: NA394312
  • Length: 3 hours 54 minutes

Contents and tracklist

Abraham Lincoln: A Life
Work length1:18:30
  • Recording Venue: Sans Walk Studios, London
Lincoln is honoured as perhaps the greatest leader…
Track length7:50
In 1830 the Lincoln family were once again on the move…
Track length7:02
We know a great deal about Lincoln the man…
Track length6:46
He was propelled back into politics in 1854…
Track length6:49
It was this ill-judged and disastrous measure…
Track length6:15
Lincoln was appalled by the judgement…
Track length5:25
The South watched this result…
Track length7:41
Lincoln's first acts as war president…
Track length8:27
But better news was coming from the western theatre…
Track length6:13
During those years…
Track length7:08
Standing among the crowd that evening…
Track length5:12
Abraham Lincoln's influence on American history…
Track length3:42
27 January 1838: The Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois
Work length16:47
  • Recording Venue: Sans Walk Studios, London
27 January 1838: The Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois
Track length8:51
- But you are, perhaps, ready to ask…
Track length7:56
16 October 1854: Peoria, Illinois
Work length17:00
  • Recording Venue: Sans Walk Studios, London
16 October 1854: Peoria, Illinois
Track length7:49
- I think, and shall try to show, that it is wrong…
Track length5:31
- I insist…
Track length3:40
16 June 1858: Springfield, Illinois
Work length7:34
  • Recording Venue: Sans Walk Studios, London
11 February 1861: Springfield, Illinois railroad station
Work length1:38
  • Recording Venue: Sans Walk Studios, London
22 February 1861: Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Work length3:46
  • Recording Venue: Sans Walk Studios, London
4 March 1861: Springfield, Illinois
Work length16:04
  • Recording Venue: Sans Walk Studios, London
4 March 1861: Springfield, Illinois
Track length3:54
- I take the official oath today…
Track length6:56
- From questions of this class…
Track length5:14
19 November 1863: Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Work length3:07
  • Recording Venue: Sans Walk Studios, London
4 March 1865: Washington, D.C.
Work length4:57
  • Recording Venue: Sans Walk Studios, London
9 April 1865: The White House, Washington, D.C.
Work length5:55
  • Recording Venue: Sans Walk Studios, London
13 June 1836: To the Editor of the Sangamo Journal
Work length3:14
  • Recording Venue: Sans Walk Studios, London
23 January 1841: To John T. Stuart
Work length1:45
  • Recording Venue: Sans Walk Studios, London
25 February 1842: To Joshua F. Speed
Work length2:57
  • Recording Venue: Sans Walk Studios, London
11 November 1842: To Samuel D. Marshall
Work length1:13
  • Recording Venue: Sans Walk Studios, London
11 August 1846: To Allen N. Ford
Work length2:39
  • Recording Venue: Sans Walk Studios, London
6 September 1846: To Andrew Johnson
Work length3:04
  • Recording Venue: Sans Walk Studios, London
5 November 1855: To Isham Reavis
Work length1:26
  • Recording Venue: Sans Walk Studios, London
2 December 1858: To James T. Thornton
Work length0:42
  • Recording Venue: Sans Walk Studios, London
15 August 1855: To the Hon. George Robertson
Work length3:36
  • Recording Venue: Sans Walk Studios, London
24 August 1855: To Joshua F. Speed
Work length4:57
  • Recording Venue: Sans Walk Studios, London
13 February 1856: To R.P. Morgan
Work length0:53
  • Recording Venue: Sans Walk Studios, London
15 May 1858: To J.F. Alexander, Esq.
Work length2:01
  • Recording Venue: Sans Walk Studios, London
6 April 1859: To Henry L. Pierce and others
Work length3:32
  • Recording Venue: Sans Walk Studios, London
April 1860: To Lyman Trumbul
Work length1:43
  • Recording Venue: Sans Walk Studios, London
22 July 1860: To George Latham
Work length1:38
  • Recording Venue: Sans Walk Studios, London
15 October 1860: From Grace Bedell
Work length1:35
  • Recording Venue: Sans Walk Studios, London
19 October 1860: To Grace Bedell
Work length0:41
  • Recording Venue: Sans Walk Studios, London
19 October 1860: To Mr. and Mrs. Ellsworth
Work length2:33
  • Recording Venue: Sans Walk Studios, London
22 September 1861: To the Hon. O.H. Browning
Work length3:25
  • Recording Venue: Sans Walk Studios, London
4 December 1861: To Mrs. Susannah Weathers
Work length1:10
  • Recording Venue: Sans Walk Studios, London
28 June 1862: Telegram To General G.B. McClellan
Work length1:25
  • Recording Venue: Sans Walk Studios, London
August 1862: To the Hon. Horace Greeley
Work length2:28
  • Recording Venue: Sans Walk Studios, London
12 June 1863: To the Hon. Erastus Corning and others
Work length9:36
  • Recording Venue: Sans Walk Studios, London
26 August 1863: To the Hon. James C. Conkling
Work length7:27
  • Recording Venue: Sans Walk Studios, London
13 July 1863: To Major General Ulysses S. Grant
Work length1:32
  • Recording Venue: Sans Walk Studios, London
20 November 1863: To the Hon. Edward Everett
Work length1:40
  • Recording Venue: Sans Walk Studios, London
4 April 1864: To Albert G. Hodges
Work length4:52
  • Recording Venue: Sans Walk Studios, London
27 December 1864: To President of Princeton, Dr. John Maclean
Work length1:44
  • Recording Venue: Sans Walk Studios, London
15 March 1865: To Thurlow Weed
Work length1:15
  • Recording Venue: Sans Walk Studios, London
21 November 1864: To Mrs. Bixby
Work length2:30
  • Recording Venue: Sans Walk Studios, London
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