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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... remember together endures . What we remember together tells us who we are , and what we may be if we choose . An elegy mourns and hopes ; it is an expression of faith whose means is memory . Bleak with cold , death , and dry vestiges of ...
... remember a malicious moment concerning him— and only an instance or two of what a person might call anger . I knew he was angry only if , somewhat crossly , he would say my actual name instead of a nickname . But he was not around much ...
... remember our fathers and mothers in order to remember our children . The consequences of absolute doubt are becoming dangerous . True , one should not be too certain that we actually know what we know . Between fact and fiction runs an ...
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