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Abraham Lincoln's first inaugural address was delivered on Monday, March 4, 1861, ... as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. ...
The book's title was taken from the ending of U.S. president Abraham Lincoln's first inaugural address. Pinker uses the phrase as a metaphor for four human motivations – empathy, self-control, the "moral sense", and reason – that, he writes, can "orient us away from violence and towards cooperation and altruism." [3]: xxv
Lincoln’s first inaugural address was an all-out attempt to prevent civil war; it’s the one in which he coined the famous phrase about appealing “to the better angels of our nature” to ...
The Better Angels, a 1979 thriller novel by Charles McCarry; The Better Angels, a 2014 biographical film; The Better Angels of Our Nature, a 2011 book by Steven Pinker; Abraham Lincoln's first inaugural address, wherein the phrase better angels is used
The Better Angels is a 2014 American biographical historical drama film about United States President Abraham Lincoln's formative years. It was written and directed by A. J. Edwards and produced by Terrence Malick. The film had its premiere at 2014 Sundance Film Festival on January 18, 2014. [1]
On Nov. 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered his historic Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Pennsylvania.
The film’s opening alone is powerful, as it intercuts one of Malcolm X’s speeches with the then-current (and sadly, still timely today) 1991 beating of Rodney King by LAPD officers. 14. JFK (1991)
Abraham Lincoln's first vice president was Hannibal Hamlin from Maine. However, when Lincoln's prospects in the 1864 United States presidential election appeared to be dimming, [1] Lincoln replaced Hamlin with Andrew Johnson, a slave-owning Southern Unionist who was the only member of the U.S. Senate from a secessionist state who stayed loyal to the federal government at the outbreak of the ...