The Gettysburg gospel : the Lincoln speech that nobody knows / Gabor Boritt
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Simon & Schuster , c2006.Description: ix, 415 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., music, facsims. ; 25 cmISBN:- 9780743288200
- 973.73 BOR
- E475.55 .B68 2006
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-393) and index.
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.
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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