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The Gettysburg gospel : the Lincoln speech that nobody knows / Gabor Boritt

By:

Boritt, G. S, , 1940-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Simon & Schuster , c2006.Description: ix, 415 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., music, facsims. ; 25 cmISBN:

9780743288200

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

973.73 BOR

LOC classification:

E475.55 .B68 2006

Contents:

After battle -- Rebirth -- Lincoln comes to Gettysburg -- Carousing crowds -- The Gettysburg gospel -- Echoes -- Gloria -- Coda -- Appendix A. The program at the Soldiers' National Cemetery, November 19, 1863 -- Appendix B. A beautiful hand: facsimiles of the five versions of the Gettysburg Address in Lincoln's hand -- Appendix C. Parsing Lincoln -- Appendix D. Dollar signs.

Summary: Many books have been written about the Gettysburg Address and yet, as Lincoln scholar Gabor Boritt shows, there is much that we don't know about the speech. In "The Gettysburg Gospel" he reconstructs what really happened in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on November 19, 1863. Boritt tears away a century of myths, lies, and legends to give us a clear understanding of the greatest American's greatest speech.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	973.73 BOR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		016230

Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-393) and index.

Many books have been written about the Gettysburg Address and yet, as Lincoln scholar Gabor Boritt shows, there is much that we don't know about the speech. In "The Gettysburg Gospel" he reconstructs what really happened in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on November 19, 1863. Boritt tears away a century of myths, lies, and legends to give us a clear understanding of the greatest American's greatest speech.

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