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    STUDIA EUROPAEA - Issue no. 2 / 2000  
         
  Article:   BEYOND WORDS: LOOKING INTO LINCOLN''''S POLITICAL RHETORIC.

Authors:  SORANA STANCIU.
 
       
         
  Abstract:  In spite of its motto, this paper is not a quest for revealing the truth. Since history does not consist in telling facts, but in interpreting them in order to sanctify some figures and demonize others (a vision depicted by Gian Battista Vico) I picked one of the most sanctified figures of the American history: Abraham Lincoln. In trying to explain - first to myself - why this process occurred in his case I came across a few things written on him, which might be divided into three sections: a) the praising account: Lincoln on Democracy or the American Hero; b) the counterbalancing account: Crisis of the House Divided or Lincoln versus Douglas, same levels, different approaches and The Poetics of Union in Whitman and Lincoln or different approaches from different levels; c) the blaming account: Free Speeches in an Open Society or Lincoln viewed from a twentieth century perspective.  
         
     
         
         
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