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Lincoln At Gettysburg
Garry Wills

Lincoln At Gettysburg

The Words That Remade America

Simon & Schuster (Jun 15, 1992)
9780671769567
| Hardcover
320 pages | 160 x 241 mm | English
Dewey 973.7092

Genre

  • American Presidents
  • C.W. Battles

Subject

  • History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
  • History / United States / General

Plot

An account of Lincoln's revolutionary speech describes how, in the space of a mere 272 words, the President brought to bear the rhetoric of the Greek Revival, the categories of transcendentalism, and the imagery of the Rural Cemetary Movement. 25,000 first printing.

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