Garry Wills

Lincoln at Gettysburg

The Words That Remade America

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The power of words has rarely been given a more compelling demonstration than in the Gettysburg Address. By examining both the address and Lincoln in their historical moment and cultural frame, Wills breathes new life into the words and reveals much about a president so mythologized but often misunderstood.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon & Schuster
• Reissue edition
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780743299633
• ISBN-10: 0743299639
• Artikelnr.: 22304930

Autorenporträt

Garry Wills is the author of 21 books, including the bestseller Lincoln at Gettysburg (winner of the 1992 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award), John Wayne's America, Certain Trumpets, Under God, and Necessary Evil. A frequent contributor to many national publications, including the New York Times Magazine and the New York Review of Books, he is also an adjunct professor of history at Northwestern University and lives in Evanston, Illinois.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Key to Brief Citations
Prologue
1. Oratory of the Greek Revival
2. Gettysburg and the Culture of Death
3. The Transcendental Declaration
4. Revolution in Thought
5. Revolution in Style
Epilogue
Appendices
I. What Lincoln Said: The Text
II. Where He Said It: The Site
III. Four Funeral Orations
A. By Everett
B. By Pericles
C. By Gorgias
D. The Gettysburg Address
1. Spoken Text(?)
2. Final Text
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index to the Gettysburg Address
Index to Other Major Lincoln Texts
Name Index
Photo Credits