Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America - Paperback
by Garry Wills
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Availability:In StockContributor:Garry WillsSeries:Simon & Schuster Lincoln LibraryPublish date:2006-11-14Pages:320
Language:EnglishPublisher:Simon & SchusterISBN-13:9780743299633ISBN-10:743299639UPC:9780743299633Book Category:History, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:United States, Presidents & Heads of State, PoliticalBook Topic:Civil War Period (1850-1877)Award:1993 Pulitzer Prize Winner - General Nonfiction AwardSize:9.18 x 6.12 x 0.77 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SC7TKS46RS
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America
In a masterly work, Garry Wills shows how Lincoln reached back to the Declaration of Independence to write the greatest speech in the nation's history.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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Simon & SchusterISBN-13:9780743299633ISBN-10:743299639UPC:9780743299633Book Category:History, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:United States, Presidents & Heads of State, PoliticalBook Topic:Civil War Period (1850-1877)Award:1993 Pulitzer Prize Winner - General Nonfiction AwardSize:9.18 x 6.12 x 0.77 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SC7TKS46RS
Garry Wills is the author of 21 books, including the bestseller Lincoln at Gettysburg (winner of the 1992 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award), John Wayne's America, Certain Trumpets, Under God, and Necessary Evil. A frequent contributor to many national publications, including the New York Times Magazine and the New York Review of Books, he is also an adjunct professor of...
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🏆 1993 Pulitzer Prize Winner - General Nonfiction Award
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