Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America
by Wills, Garry
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- Fine
- Paperback
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 0743299639
- ISBN 13
- 9780743299633
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About This Item
Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 1992. Soft cover. Fine. Soft cover in fine condition with wraps bright, unmarked, uncreased. * From the back cover, ""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.""
Synopsis
The power of words has rarely been given a more compelling demonstration than in the Gettysburg Address. By examining both the address and Lincoln in their historical moment and cultural frame, Wills breathes new life into the words and reveals much about a president so mythologized but often misunderstood.
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- Bookseller
- Elk Creek Heritage Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- M001314
- Title
- Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America
- Author
- Wills, Garry
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0743299639
- ISBN 13
- 9780743299633
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1992
- Keywords
- History, Abraham Lincoln - 1809-1865, Abraham Lincoln - Gettsburg address, Abraham - Oratory, U.S. Civil War
- Bookseller catalogs
- History; History of the Civil War;
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- Countries & Cultures North America United States Americana
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- Politics, Government and Law Law Enforcement Political Biography Abraham Lincoln
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