Garry Wills

Lincoln at Gettysburg (eBook, ePUB)

The Words that Remade America

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 deep political experience went into this, his revolutionary masterpiece.

By examining both the address and Lincoln in their historical moment and cultural frame, Wills breathes new life into words we thought we knew, and reveals much about a president so mythologized but often misunderstood. Wills shows how Lincoln came to change the world and to effect an intellectual revolution, how his words had to and did complete the work of the guns, and how Lincoln wove a spell that has not yet been broken.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781439126455
• Artikelnr.: 37899659

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