LINCOLN AT GETTYSBURG: THE WORDS THAT REMADE AMERICA [SIGNED]
New York: The Legal Classics Library, 1992. Octavo, 317 pages. In Very Good condition. Bound in full green leather bearing gilt lettering to the spine. Boards have very slight wear including mild sunning to the spine. Raised bands to the spine and gilt decorations. Text block has all edges gilt. Marbled end papers. Frontispiece. Illustrated. Ribbon marker. Signed by the author, Garry Wills.
NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column A (ND-A).
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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.