New York: Simon & Schuster / Touchstone, June 1993. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Unmarked. Spine straight, tight, and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Slight corner wear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 317 pages.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. A former professor of Greek at Yale University, Wills painstakingly deconstructs Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and discovers heavy influence from the early Greeks (Pericles) and the 19th century Transcendentalists (Edward Everett). The author also probes Lincoln's decision to rely more on the Declaration of Independence than the U.S. Constitution, a decision Wills says represented a "revolution in thought."

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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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Bookseller: Books of the World (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: RWARE0000004087
Title: Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America
Author: Garry Wills
Format/Binding: Trade Paperback
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine
Quantity Available: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN 10: 0671867423
ISBN 13: 9780671867423
Publisher: Simon & Schuster / Touchstone
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: June 1993
Pages: 317
Size: 8vo
Keywords: history, Civil War, Lincoln, Gettysburg address, oratory
Bookseller catalogs: Politics & Government; History;

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