Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America

by Garry Wills

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Wills's Pulitzer-winning study of the Gettysburg Address argues that Lincoln's 272 words reshaped American self-understanding in a way no speech before or since has matched. Every word, Wills shows, was there for a reason.

Published:: 1992
Pages:: 335

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Holiday calls Lincoln at Gettysburg "probably the best" of all the Lincoln books he read for this project and "an absolutely incredible book." Wills's study of the Gettysburg Address is the main source for the chapter on grasping essence.

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