Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America - Brossura

Wills, Garry

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ISBN 10: 0671867423 ISBN 13: 9780671867423

Casa editrice: Touchstone Books, 1993

Riassunto

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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L'autore:

Garry Wills, former Henry R. Luce Professor of American Culture and Public Policy at Northwestern University, is the author of Inventing America and Explaining America, as well as Reagan's America, Under God, Nixon Agonistes, The Kennedy Imprisonment, and other books. He lives in Evanston, Illinois.

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Book by Wills Garry

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Touchstone Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0671867423
• ISBN 13: 9780671867423
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 320