Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America"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 words. His entire life and previous training and his deep political experience went into this, his revolutionary masterpiece. By examining both the address and Lincoln in their historical moment and cultural frame, Wills breathes new life into words we thought we knew, and reveals much about a president so mythologized but often misunderstood. Wills shows how Lincoln came to change the world and to effect an intellectual revolution, how his words had to and did complete the work of the guns, and how Lincoln wove a spell that has not yet been broken"--Publisher's description. |
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... constitutional arguments to make for the singleness of the nation . Hayne , like Calhoun , treated the nation as a league of " sovereign states " bound only by a pact ( the Constitution ) . Webster argued that Americans had constituted ...
... constitutional arguments to make for the singleness of the nation . Hayne , like Calhoun , treated the nation as a league of " sovereign states " bound only by a pact ( the Constitution ) . Webster argued that Americans had constituted ...
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... Constitution . So basic was his commitment not to interfere with slavery , so long as it could be contained , that he gave this extraordinary assurance to the South in his First Inaugural : I understand a proposed amendment to the ...
... Constitution . So basic was his commitment not to interfere with slavery , so long as it could be contained , that he gave this extraordinary assurance to the South in his First Inaugural : I understand a proposed amendment to the ...
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... constitutional argument for perpetuity [ of the Union ] ever devised . " He does not notice that every element of that argument was taken from Webster , since he considers only the Reply to Hayne and omits " The Constitution Not a ...
... constitutional argument for perpetuity [ of the Union ] ever devised . " He does not notice that every element of that argument was taken from Webster , since he considers only the Reply to Hayne and omits " The Constitution Not a ...
Contents
Key to Brief Citations | 17 |
Oratory of the Greek Revival | 41 |
Gettysburg and the Culture of Death | 63 |
Copyright | |
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