Lincoln at Gettysburg : The Words that Remade America

Lincoln at Gettysburg : The Words that Remade America

Garry Wills

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FörlagSimon & Schuster
ISBN9781439126455

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 d