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For more than 150 years, historians have speculated about what made Abraham Lincoln great. How did Lincoln create his iron logic, his compelling reason, his convincing oratory, and his memorable writing? Some point to Lincoln's study of grammar, literature, and poetry. Others believe it was the deep national crisis that elevated Lincoln's oratory. Most agree though that he honed his persuasive technique in his work as an Illinois attorney.
Authors Hirsch and Van Haften persuasively argue, for the first time, that it was Lincoln's in-depth study of geometry that gave our sixteenth president his verbal structure. Although Lincoln's fascination with geometry is well documented, most historians have concluded that his study of the subject was little more than mental calisthenics. In fact, conclude the authors, Lincoln embedded the ancient structure of geometric proof into the Gettysburg Address, the Cooper Union speech, the First and Second Inaugurals, his legal practice, and much of his substantive post-1853 communication.Modern science can be traced back to Greek geometric method, but rhetoric, which morphed into speech and then into communications, has barely advanced since Aristotle. Lincoln's structure emancipates speech from Aristotle and unleashes limitless possibilities. Indeed, his use of geometric method in rhetoric and writing has long been a secret hiding in plain sight. Virtually any literate person can become an Abraham Lincoln by structuring speech with iron logic, as aptly demonstrated by this remarkable new study.Among other things, the authors artfully demonstrate the real importance of the Cooper Union speech (which helped make Lincoln president), offer a startling revelation about the Declaration of Independence that connects Lincoln to Thomas Jefferson more closely than anyone previously realized, and show how the structure of the legal system played an even more important role in Lincoln's greatness than heretofore realized.With the publication of Abraham Lincoln and the Structure of Reason, Lincoln immediately takes on a new importance that will open an entirely new avenue of scholarly study.About the Authors: David Hirsch is an attorney in Des Moines, Iowa. He has a BS from Michigan State University and a JD, with distinction, from the University of Iowa College of Law. He clerked for an Iowa Supreme Court Justice from 1973-1974. Hirsch co-authored the technology column for the American Bar Association Journal for over a decade. The idea for this book came from a column he co-authored for the ABA Journal in 2007.Dan Van Haften lives in Batavia, Illinois. He has BS, with high honor, and MS degrees in mathematics from Michigan State University, and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology. He began his career with ATandT Bell Laboratories in 1970, and retired from Alcatel-Lucent in 2007. His work involved software development and system testing on telecommunication systems.- Sales Rank: #1650920 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Savas Beatie
- Published on: 2010-11-19
- Released on: 2016-11-14
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x 1.20" w x 6.20" l, 1.70 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 432 pages
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A brilliant study. . . . The authors conclusively demonstrate how the self-taught Lincoln mastered Euclidean Geometry and used Euclid's elements in his most famous speeches, including the Gettysburg Address and the Cooper Union Address. Understanding geometry helped organize Lincoln's mind, his writing, and his political skills. To David Hirsch and Dan Van Haften, all students of Abraham Lincoln and our democracy are indebted. (Frank J. Williams, Chair, The Lincoln Forum, and Retired Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island)
No one has examined Euclidian logic alongside Lincoln's rhetorical and written construction as thoroughly as Mssrs. Hirsch and Van Haften, and the results are startling. We continue to shed our shopworn image of Lincoln as a low-gear country lawyer as we learn more about his cases, and now with this study we see a wholly new angle of his brilliance -- which nevertheless must keep us wondering, How did Lincoln do it? Picking apart his Cooper Institute speech for its inner structure, for example, they reveal how deeply Lincoln had imbibed the classical principles of organization, and how it made him the lawyer and politician he was. Hirsch and Van Haften also offer a guidebook not just for attorneys bent on the same self-improvement, but the simple tools for anyone to do as Lincoln did: learn how to learn, and then demonstrate the rightness of your position. (James M. Cornelius, Curator, Lincoln Collection, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum)
From the Author
This book was a thrill to write. Its core revelation is the proposition that Abraham Lincoln used the six elements of a geometric proposition as the structural framework for his major speeches from 1854 on. The elements are: 1. Enunciation, 2. Exposition, 3. Specification, 4. Construction, 5. Proof, and 6. Conclusion. The Enunciation contains a Given and a Sought. Each element has a one sentence definition..The Enunciation contains indisputable foundational fact (in the Given), and a general statement of the issue (in the Sought). The Exposition, and Construction are factually based. The Enunciation's Sought, the Specification, and the Conclusion, provide logical direction. Argument is precisely timed, and appears solely in the Proof..Properly done the Proof is anticipated by the listener or reader, and the Conclusion is self-evident. Facts provide an iron foundation for logic perfectly weaved. Credibility is maximized, and civility comes naturally.
From the Back Cover
From the back cover of the paperback edition of Abraham Lincoln and the Structure of Reason:"A brilliant study...The authors conclusively demonstrate how the self-taught Lincoln mastered Euclidean Geometry and used Euclid's elements in his most famous speeches, including the Gettysburg Address and the Cooper Union Address. Understanding geometry helped organize Lincoln's mind, his writing, and his political skills. To David Hirsch and Dan Van Haften, all students of Abraham Lincoln and our democracy are indebted." ― Frank J. Williams, Chair, The Lincoln Forum, and Retired Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island.From the front cover:"Lincoln and the Structure of Reason offers a wholly new angle on Lincoln's brilliance." ―�James M. Cornelius, Curator, Lincoln Collection, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful.
A fascinating read!
By Dan_K
Abraham Lincoln and the Structure of Reason is a comprehensive study of how Lincoln developed his command of logic, reason and argument both as an attorney and political giant. I always thought Lincoln, like many politicians, had an innate ability to communicate ideas. The book contends that such skills can be learned. Portions of the book require deep thought regarding the mathematical concepts needed to understand Lincoln's approach, but the authors effectively break the materials into reasonable portions. As a litigation attorney, I really appreciated the historical detail of practicing law in the mid-1800's and would highly recommend the book to other attorneys, especially younger attorneys who wish to understand the roots of the profession and how to develop the timeless art of persuasion from one of the best. A fascinating read.
22 of 26 people found the following review helpful.
What Did Lincoln Ask at Cooper Union?
By Vince Treacy
In "Abraham Lincoln and the Structure of Reason," authors David Hirsch and Dan Van Haften write that Lincoln used Euclid's principles of geometry to structure many of his speeches, legal arguments, and writings. In Chapter 3, "Honest Abe?," they write that Lincoln misused Euclid in his 1860 speech at Cooper Union by misconstruing the votes cast by three of the Framers of the Constitution on the issue of the power of the federal government to control slavery in the federal territories.
The authors recite a long list of problems with Lincoln's arguments. The question mark after "Honest Abe" in the chapter's title seems to imply that he was less than honest. The authors make this implication explicit, over and over. Lincoln, they write, "confused the issue" and "stretched the math" (p. 48). He "finessed" the votes of three of the Framers (p. 50). He "employed a verbal shell game" by "overstating his conclusion" (p. 50). There was "weakness in Lincoln's argument" (p. 51). The genius of his speech was in "the skillful stretching of the context of the facts" (emphasis in original, p. 51). He "manufactured three votes" by giving them "a significance they did not have" (p. 51). He used "sleight of hand" (p. 53). Lincoln "slyly manipulated the counting" (p. 52). There was "carefully orchestrated equivocation" (p. 53). The facts Lincoln presented at Cooper Union were not in dispute, but the "stretch" he made was in "the legal effect of those undisputed facts" (p. 54). The authors suggest a possible violation of the American Bar Association's Model Rules of Professional Conduct.
Lincoln was not dishonest. The authors write that "the issue Lincoln addressed was whether the Constitution forbids the federal government from regulating slavery in the territories." But, in fact, Lincoln never posed the question in those words. The actual question he asked was, "Does the proper division of local from federal authority, or anything in the Constitution, forbid our Federal Government to control as to slavery in our Federal Territories?" (emphasis in original).
Lincoln answered his own question: "The sum of the whole is, that of our thirty-nine fathers who framed the original Constitution, twenty-one -- a clear majority of the whole -- certainly understood that no proper division of local from federal authority, nor any part of the Constitution, forbade the Federal Government to control slavery in the federal territories."
What were the votes of the three Framers that Lincoln supposedly "finessed"? The first was in 1784. Lincoln said that "three years before the Constitution -- the United States then owning the Northwestern Territory, and no other, the Congress of the Confederation had before them the question of prohibiting slavery in that Territory; and four of the 'thirty-nine' who afterward framed the Constitution, were in that Congress, and voted on that question. Of these, Roger Sherman, Thomas Mifflin, and Hugh Williamson voted for the prohibition, thus showing that, in their understanding, no line dividing local from federal authority, nor anything else, properly forbade the Federal Government to control as to slavery in federal territory."
On the second vote, Lincoln said that in 1787, "still before the Constitution, but while the Convention was in session framing it, and while the Northwestern Territory still was the only territory owned by the United States, the same question of prohibiting slavery in the territory again came before the Congress of the [Articles of] Confederation; and two more of the 'thirty-nine' who afterward signed the Constitution, were in that Congress, and voted on the question. They were William Blount and William Few; and they both voted for the prohibition -- thus showing that, in their understanding, no line dividing local from federal authority, nor anything else, properly forbids the Federal Government to control as to slavery in Federal territory. This time the prohibition became a law, being part of what is now well known as the Ordinance of '87."
Lincoln candidly and openly (1) stated that the vote preceded the Constitution, (2) made no assertion that it supported the "constitutionality" of the legislation, and (3) used the vote to show the understanding at the time of the line dividing local from federal authority.
It is an old debating technique to state one's own version of an opponent's argument, and then to argue against the resulting straw man.
In paraphrasing, but not quoting, Lincoln's question, the authors never include his phrase "proper division of local from federal authority." Lincoln was responding to a famous article by Stephen A. Douglas in the September 1859 issue of Harper's entitled "The Dividing Line Between Federal and Local Authority: Popular Sovereignty in the Territories." Douglas wrote that the dividing line between federal and local authority was familiar to the "framers of the Constitution." He wrote that the colonial era, imperial England had no authority over "local" matters, including laws affecting slavery. Under the Articles of Confederation, he argued, the people of the territories had an inalienable right to govern themselves with respect to "internal polity," including slavery, while Congress was limited to federal affairs. This was the "dividing line." At Cooper Union, Lincoln countered with the principle that "no proper division of local from federal authority, nor any part of the Constitution, forbade the Federal Government to control slavery in the federal territories."
The authors assert a need to prove an absolute majority, but if 18 of 39 signers had voted for legislation restricting slavery in the territories after ratification, and only two voted against, then there would have been a clear plurality in favor. A plurality is still enough to elect a President, to elect Members of Congress in most states, and to enact legislation. The authors' chart lists "18 unique yes" votes. An 18-to-2 vote, with 19 silences, is very persuasive. So if Lincoln had addressed the question of constitutionality, he still would have had a strong argument.
The authors also note that neither a legislator's oath nor the Constitution itself can influence a vote prior to the Constitution's existence (p. 50). But if the three voters had in fact favored the policy of federal control of slavery in the territories under the Articles, then it would be reasonable to conclude that they favored the same policy as drafters of the Constitution, in the absence of any evidence that they intended a change in policy.
In short, the authors argue that three pre-Constitution votes on slavery were not relevant to the constitutionality of federal regulation of slavery in the territories, but they are wrong to claim that Lincoln said otherwise. Lincoln said that the pre-Constitution votes showed that the Framers believed that the "proper division of local from federal authority" did not preclude federal regulation of slavery in the territories.
Thus, the authors do not address the question Lincoln actually asked -- whether either the proper division of local from federal authority OR anything in the Constitution, forbids the federal government from controlling slavery in the territories. The reason that Lincoln asked that question is that that was the question that Douglas had raised in Harper's, and Lincoln disagreed with Douglas's answer to it. If the question had actually concerned solely the federal government's power under the Constitution, then the authors' point about Lincoln's use of pre-Constitution votes might be valid. But, because the question also concerned the proper division of local from federal authority, their point is not valid. They do not even mention Douglas's article.
[The preceding discussion expands upon points made in a book review by Henry Cohen of "Abraham Lincoln and the Structure of Reason" in The Federal Lawyer (Feb. 2011, pp. 61-64). In the review, the author of the review acknowledged my assistance to him in preparing it. Available online at the website of The Federal Lawyer.]
12 of 14 people found the following review helpful.
A serious & complex book
By James W. Durney
Saying Abraham Lincoln is a brilliant writer will cause few arguments. Lincoln increased our vocabulary of phrases while defining how we see ourselves. His words are as fresh now as when spoken, the appeal to our better nature has not diminished. Many theories exist on how a self-education person could write such inspiring words. This book presents a compelling argument that Euclidean Geometry is the answer.
The book opens with a look at Lincoln as a student. Lincoln recalled his education as "readin, wrttin, and cipherin' and everything else learned "under the pressure of necessity". The authors maintain in "Unlocking Lincoln" that Lincoln transferred geometry into speech. The balance of the book looks at specific speeches and or incidents from Lincoln's life illustrating the development or application of this theory. The book's Appendix contains a series of Lincoln's speeches where the author's apply their idea illustrating how Lincoln applied Euclidean Geometry in each speech.
This is a serious and complex book. One author is an attorney and co-author of the technology column for the American Bar Association Journal. The other has a MS in mathematics and a PHD in electrical engineering. There is a series of charts and tables summarizing their ideas throughout the book. While not an easy read, it is not an impossible one. I followed the text with little difficulty for this type of book. The book is fully footnoted, indexed and contains a full bibliography.
This book will appeal to Lincoln scholars and mathematicians but is an informative read for our Civil War community. While not for everyone it is an above average book.
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