Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America - Softcover

Wills, Garry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0671867423 ISBN 13: 9780671867423

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd, 1993

Synopsis

Winner of the Pulitzer prize in 1993, this is an account of the making of Lincoln's revolutionary masterpiece. Lincoln was asked to prepare a memorial for the battle at Gettysburg. Instead, he gave the whole nation "a birth of freedom" - by tracing its birth to the Declaration of Independence (which called all men equal) rather than the Constitution (which tolerated slavery). In the space of a mere 272 words, Lincoln combines the rhetoric of the Greek Revival and the categories of Transcendentalism, to provide stunning imagery of the Rural Cemetery Movement. His entire previous life and training, his deep political experience, went into this, his masterpiece.

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Review:

"The Philadelphia Inquirer"True to its historical antecedents and politically triumphant...A brilliantly creative reading of a critically important, indeed, culturally transforming, political document.

About the Author:

Garry Wills, former Henry R. Luce Professor of American Culture and Public Policy at Northwestern University, is the author of Inventing America and Explaining America, as well as Reagan's America, Under God, Nixon Agonistes, The Kennedy Imprisonment, and other books. He lives in Evanston, Illinois.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0671867423
• ISBN 13: 9780671867423
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320