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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America

Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America

Wills, Garry

Paperback

Series: Simon & Schuster Lincoln Library

Political BiographiesPresidents & Heads of StateCivil War Period (1850-1877)

Publisher Price: $19.99

ISBN10: 0743299639
ISBN13: 9780743299633
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: Nov 14 2006
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.77 Width: 6.12 Depth: 9.18
Language: English
Awards: Pulitzer Prize
In a masterly work, Garry Wills shows how Lincoln reached back to the Declaration of Independence to write the greatest speech in the nation's history.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.

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