Preview: Penguin Books “Lincoln on the Civil War”

Penguin Books has published a new pocket hardcover, Lincoln on the Civil War: Selected Speeches. It’s a compact, handy, non-annotated collection, selected from Penguin’s own The Portable Abraham Lincoln, and includes the following, essential Lincoln speeches:

• Address to the Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois (1838)
• “House Divided” Speech at Springfield, Illinois (1858)
• Address at Cooper Institute, New York, New York (1860)
• Speech at Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1861)
• First Inaugural Address, Washington, D. C. (1861)
• Emancipation Proclamation, Washington, D. C. (1863)
• The Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania (1863)
• Second Inaugural Address, Washington, D. C. (1865)
• Speech on Reconstruction, Washington, D. C. (1865)

Look at this as the AL equivalent of a pocket Constitution, which you can pull out when someone spouts off that “Lincoln said…” Kind of like your own little Marshall McLuhan.