Lessons from Lincoln, Then and Now (with Diana Schaub)

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🗓️ 15 July 2024

⏱️ 94 minutes

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What lessons can we take from the speeches of Abraham Lincoln for today's turbulent times? How did those speeches move the nation in Lincoln's day? Listen as political scientist Diana Schaub of Loyola University, Maryland talks with EconTalk's Russ Roberts about three of Lincoln's most important speeches and what they can tell us about the United States then and now.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, Conversations for the Curious, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:08.0	I'm your host Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford University's Hoover Institution. Go to Econ Talk. in to today's conversation. You'll also find our archives with every episode we've done
0:24.5	going back to 2006. Our email address is mail at econ talk.org we'd love to hear from you. Today is June 10th, 2024, my guest is author and political scientist Diana Schaub of Loyola University, Maryland.
0:45.0	Her latest book, which is our topic for today is,
0:49.0	his greatest speeches how Lincoln moved the nation.
0:53.0	Dana, welcome to Econ Talk.
0:55.0	Thanks, glad to be here.
0:57.0	Your book looks at three of Lincoln speeches,
0:59.0	the Gettysburg address, the second inaugural,
1:01.0	and a third that is less well known to many, the Lyceumseum address, which was given in 1838 when Lincoln was just 28 years old.
1:10.0	I want to start with the Lyceum address of 1838.
1:14.0	Why did you choose this speech for your book?
1:17.0	Yeah, I mean the claim is that these are the three greatest speeches.
1:22.0	It's clear enough, I think that the Gettysburg
1:24.8	address and second inaugural deserve
1:27.1	to be ranked in that category.
1:29.6	But the inclusion of the Lyceum address
1:31.7	is a little bit more unusual although I think more
1:34.1	people now are really paying attention to this speech it's it's very early Lincoln is
1:39.4	very young but it is a comprehensive reflection on the nature and especially the dangers and
1:49.3	threats to popular government to democratic government.
1:53.0	So it really is a very comprehensive political reflection.
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