Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America
by Garry Wills
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Author: Garry WillsEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1993-06-12
ISBN: 0671867423
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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Book Review: Puts the Gettysburg Address into a fascinating context.
Summary: 5 Stars
It is a crime that this book has been allowed to go out of print. Wills's account of the oh-so-familiar Gettysburg Address reveals how little even most historians know about its context in social and cultural history. He takes us back to Pericles' funeral oration near the beginning of the Peloponnesian Wars (Lincoln's conscious model) and goes on to show such threads of influence as the poetry of Ralph Waldo Emerson (like whom Lincoln had his just-buried son exhumed in order to gaze on his face one more time), the recent phenomenon of "garden cemetaries" as both moral influences and picnic sites, and--most of all--Lincoln's determination to shift the nation's scriptural reverence from the very conservative Constitution to the radical Declaration of Independence. A deserving winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this book should be read by all who care about how we became the nation we think we are.
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