Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America
- ISBN-10
- 0671867423
- ISBN-13
- 9780671867423
- Category
- Death
- Pages
- 317
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1992
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Author
- Garry Wills
Description
An account of Lincoln's revolutionary speech describes how, in the space of 272 words, the President brought to bear the rhetoric of the Greek Revival, the categories of transcendentalism, and the imagery of the Rural Cemetary Movement
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