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Garry Wills

Lincoln At Gettysburg: The Words That Re-Made America

The Words That Remade America

Simon & Schuster (Jun 15, 1992)

9780671769567

| Hard Cover with Dust Jacket

320 pages | 244 x 25 mm | English

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Dewey 973.7092

LC Classification E475.55 .W54 1992

LC Control No. 92003546

Genre

American History
History

Subject

Biography & Autobiography / Presidents & Heads Of State
History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
History / United States / General
United States

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.