Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America
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.
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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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780671769567 (0671769561)
ASIN: 671769561
Publish date: 1992-06-15
Publisher: Simon & Schuster (NYC)
Pages no: 317
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Biography,
History,
Literature,
American,
War,
Politics,
American History,
Military History,
Civil War,
Presidents,
American Civil War
I tend to be an "actions speak louder than works" kind of person. I think that, had the outcome of the war been different, maybe this speech would have meant nothing. I am not wholly convinced by his thesis that this one, very short speech totally changed most people's outlook on the constitution....
Perhaps I should put this in a trilogy including Explaining America and Inventing America. Here, Wills shows how Lincoln's Gettysburg Address foreshadowed our conception of the United States today (just a minor semantic example: prior to 1865, I would have written "these United States," as if I were...
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