![]() ![]() ![]() His entire life and previous training and his deep political experience went into this, his revolutionary masterpiece.īy examining both the address and Lincoln in their historical moment and cultural frame, Wills breathes new life into words we thought we knew, and reveals much about a president so mythologized but often misunderstood. Instead he gave the whole nation “a new birth of freedom” in the space of a mere 272 words. Lincoln was asked to memorialize the gruesome battle. The power of words has rarely been given a more compelling demonstration than in the Gettysburg Address. In a masterly work, Garry Wills shows how Lincoln reached back to the Declaration of Independence to write the greatest speech in the nation’s history. ![]()
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