November: Lincoln's Elegy at GettysburgIndiana University Press, 09/11/2001 - 344 páginas It begins with the search for hallowed ground, the exact place from which Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address. In bleak November, Kent Gramm makes a pilgrimage to the most famous battleground in American history and over the course of a month transforms his search into a discovery of the meaning of Lincoln's elegy for America's identity. |
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... American liberty and justice perish . The president implies a simple statement : If American equality fails , all potential equalities fail . They will remain unborn . The other side of the statement is not implied : if America succeeds ...
... American University in 1963 , Kennedy said , " man can be as big as he wants . " This is a modern , Enlightenment idea . If , as Garry Wills claims , America is " the first child of the Enlightenment , " then John F. Kennedy was also in ...
... American Religion : The Emergence of the Post- Christian Nation , Harold Bloom writes , " The American Christ is more an American than he is Christ . " He means not Abraham Lincoln , though the thought suggests itself , but rather the ...
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