Ebook {Epub PDF} Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America by Garry Wills

GARRY WILLS ON THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS Paul A. Rahe Garry Wills. Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America. New York: Simon and Schuster, pp. Photographs, appendixes, notes, and in-dexes. $ Garry Wills has never been an . In his non-fiction book Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America (), American author and journalist Garry Wills dissects the word Gettysburg Address delivered to Union soldiers by President Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War, identifying the ideas and texts that influenced the writing of one of the most famous speeches of all time. Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America by Garry Wills Overview - 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.

Garry Wills is the author of 21 books, including the bestseller Lincoln at Gettysburg (winner of the 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. The brilliant author Garry Wills did a public service when he wrote this book about Abraham Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address". Chapters on 19th century oratory, the "rural cemetery" movement and Lincoln's choice of words provide context, but those aren't the parts of the book that make it important. Wills's principal thesis is that Lincoln's focus on. Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America by Garry Wills Overview - 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.

Garry Wills, Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America (Simon Schuster, ), pp. Not all the gallantry of General Lee can redeem, quite, his foolhardiness at Gettysburg. When in doubt, he charged into the cannon’s mouth--by proxy. In “The Words That Remade America,” the historian and journalist Garry Wills reconstructed the events leading up to the occasion, debunking the myth that President Lincoln wrote his remarks at. 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 words.