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Lincoln at Gettysburg The Words that Remade America,9780743299633

Lincoln at Gettysburg The Words that Remade America

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ISBN13: 9780743299633
ISBN10: 0743299639
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-11-14
Publisher(s): Simon & Schuster
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Summary

The power of words has rarely been given a more compelling demonstration than in the Gettysburg Address. Lincoln was asked to memorialize the gruesome battle. Instead he gave the whole nation "a new birth of freedom" in the space of a mere 272 words. His entire life and previous training and his deep political experience went into this, his revolutionary masterpiece.By examining both the address and Lincoln in their historical moment and cultural frame, Wills breathes new life into words we thought we knew, and reveals much about a president so mythologized but often misunderstood. Wills shows how Lincoln came to change the world and to effect an intellectual revolution, how his words had to and did complete the work of the guns, and how Lincoln wove a spell that has not yet been broken.

Author Biography

Garry Wills is the author of 21 books, including the bestseller Lincoln at Gettysburg (winner of the 1992 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award), John Wayne's America, Certain Trumpets, Under God, and Necessary Evil. A frequent contributor to many national publications, including the New York Times Magazine and the New York Review of Books, he is also an adjunct professor of history at Northwestern University and lives in Evanston, Illinois.

Table of Contents

Key to Brief Citations 17(2)
Prologue 19(22)
1. Oratory of the Greek Revival 41(22)
2. Gettysburg and the Culture of Death 63(27)
3. The Transcendental Declaration 90(31)
4. Revolution in Thought 121(27)
5. Revolution in Style 148(29)
Epilogue 177(14)
Appendices 191(74)
I. What Lincoln Said: The Text
191(14)
II. Where He Said It: The Site
205(6)
III. Four Funeral Orations
211(54)
A. By Everett
213(36)
B. By Pericles
249(8)
C. By Gorgias
257(4)
D. The Gettysburg Address
261(4)
1. Spoken Text (?)
261(2)
2. Final Text
263(2)
Acknowledgments 265(2)
Notes 267(40)
Index to the Gettysburg Address 307(2)
Index to Other Major Lincoln Texts 309(2)
Name Index 311(6)
Photo Credits 317

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