Lincoln: Selected Speeches, Messages, and Letters

xxi, 290 pp. "Lincoln is the most written-about figure in American history. The documents in this book have been selected from 'The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln' (8 volumes and index), edited by Roy P. Baesler. In presenting Lincoln's writings, the editor "followed the text of 'The Collected Works'--with a few minor exceptions. In this Rinehart Edition, the selections reproduced are intended to show Lincoln's views on current questions of his day and on basic poliprinciples." CONTENTS: Early Years; The Slavery Controversy; President-Elect; The Civil War, 1861-1862; The Civil War, 1864-1865.