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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... speech would be little noted nor long remembered . Why did Everett's speech fall and die right after the occasion , and Lincoln's live ? Primarily because Lincoln's was alive in the first place . Everett's address is words ; Lincoln's ...
... speech was better than the other ? Are we indulging in mere literary criticism ? Was the event at Gettysburg a foren- sic competition ? There was the matter of winning the war , which Everett's speech could not effect . The words we say ...
... speech is likewise aimed at the future : short , direct , memorable , imperative . At no point are we more than two minutes from the war , these graves , the future . This is no time for speeches . The Address is not a speech , it is an ...
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Brought Forth Pen and Sword | 30 |
NOVEMBER 4 | 41 |
NOVEMBER 5 | 63 |
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