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Author : Paul Alan Cimbala
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 36,79 MB
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 0823232026
"An unusually strong collection of essays ...the scholarship is impeccable."---Gaines M. Foster, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge --
Author : Abraham Lincoln
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 9 pages
File Size : 22,76 MB
Release : 2022-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1504080246
The complete text of one of the most important speeches in American history, delivered by President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War. On November 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln arrived at the battlefield near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to remember not only the grim bloodshed that had just occurred there, but also to remember the American ideals that were being put to the ultimate test by the Civil War. A rousing appeal to the nation’s better angels, The Gettysburg Address remains an inspiring vision of the United States as a country “conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”
Author : Garry Wills
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 46,86 MB
Release : 2012-12-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1439126453
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 : Martin P. Johnson
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 16,76 MB
Release : 2015-04-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0700621121
Four score and seven years ago . . . . Are any six words better known, of greater import, or from a more crucial moment in our nation’s history? And yet after 150 years the dramatic and surprising story of how Lincoln wrote the Gettysburg Address has never been fully told. Until now. Martin Johnson's remarkable work of historical and literary detection illuminates a speech, a man, and a moment in history that we thought we knew. Johnson guides readers on Lincoln’s emotional and intellectual journey to the speaker’s platform, revealing that Lincoln himself experienced writing the Gettysburg Address as an eventful process that was filled with the possibility of failure, but which he knew resulted finally in success beyond expectation. We listen as Lincoln talks with the cemetery designer about the ideals and aspirations behind the unprecedented cemetery project, look over Lincoln's shoulder as he rethinks and rewrites his speech on the very morning of the ceremony, and share his anxiety that he might not live up to the occasion. And then, at last, we stand with Lincoln at Gettysburg, when he created the words and image of an enduring and authentic legend. Writing the Gettysburg Address resolves the puzzles and problems that have shrouded the composition of Lincoln's most admired speech in mystery for fifteen decades. Johnson shows when Lincoln first started his speech, reveals the state of the document Lincoln brought to Gettysburg, traces the origin of the false story that Lincoln wrote his speech on the train, identifies the manuscript Lincoln held while speaking, and presents a new method for deciding what Lincoln’s audience actually heard him say. Ultimately, Johnson shows that the Gettysburg Address was a speech that grew and changed with each step of Lincoln's eventful journey to the podium. His two-minute speech made the battlefield and the cemetery into landmarks of the American imagination, but it was Lincoln’s own journey to Gettysburg that made the Gettysburg Address.
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Page : 272 pages
File Size : 23,66 MB
Release : 1909
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Author : Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 45,58 MB
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
'The Perfect Tribute' is a short story written by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews, and is also her best known work. It is about the past U.S. president, Abraham Lincoln, depicting him as writing and delivering the Gettysburg Address, then concluding his speech was an utter failure. Later, he comforts a Confederate Captain as he dies in a prison hospital, and the Captain, who does not recognize him, praises the Address as "one of the great speeches in history". The wildly popular story was assigned reading for multiple generations of school children in the United States and may be the most popular book ever published about Lincoln.
Author : Abraham Lincoln
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 23,74 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780231103268
-- Thomas F. Schwartz, Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, Lincoln Herald
Author : John George Nicolay
Publisher :
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 13,34 MB
Release : 1890
Category : United States
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Author : Eric Foner
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 45,31 MB
Release : 2011-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 039308082X
“A masterwork [by] the preeminent historian of the Civil War era.”—Boston Globe Selected as a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, this landmark work gives us a definitive account of Lincoln's lifelong engagement with the nation's critical issue: American slavery. A master historian, Eric Foner draws Lincoln and the broader history of the period into perfect balance. We see Lincoln, a pragmatic politician grounded in principle, deftly navigating the dynamic politics of antislavery, secession, and civil war. Lincoln's greatness emerges from his capacity for moral and political growth.
Author : Gabor Boritt
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 30,78 MB
Release : 2008-02-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0743288211
Describes the events surrounding Abraham Lincoln's historic speech following the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863, how he responded to the politics of the time, and the importance of that speech.