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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... battle as history , no eulogizing — a deliberate refusal to dedicate the dead or the ground - the speech places our feet on this hallowed ground . We are one part of the triangle : past , present , future ; the heroes , ourselves ...
... battle itself has become a ceremony , now that it is a past and therefore imagined event . ( Even for the soldiers , most of the battle must be imagined , be- cause they saw only a small portion of that field . What they do remem- ber ...
... Battle of Bunker Hill , 35 Battle of Gettysburg , 15 , 29 , 80 , 104 Bede , Venerable , 111 , 112 , 166 , 255 Beethoven , Ludwig von , 191 , 241 Belfast , Northern Ireland , 185 Brave New World ( Huxley ) , 192 British Isles . See ...
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