Catch Lincoln At Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America (Simon Schuster Lincoln Library) Rendered By Garry Wills Expressed As Print

geschrieben, viel Hintergrund Information, faszinierende Einblicke in einen wichtigen Wendepunkt der US Amerikanischen Geschichte, Lincoln hat mit wenigen Worten Wichtiges und Bleibendes gesagt, Wills geht weiter und zeigt auf, dass Lincoln auch die Tagespolitik im Blick hatte, The power of words has rarely been given a compelling demonstration than in the Gettysburg Address Lincoln was asked to memorialize the gruesome battle Instead, he gave the whole nation a new birth of freedom in the space of a mere words His entire life and previous training, and his deep political experience went into this, his revolutionary masterpieceBy 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 Wills shows how Lincoln came to change the world and to effect an intellectual revolution, how his words had to and did complete the work of the guns, and how Lincoln wove a spell that has not yet been broken The Gettysburg Address is one of the best known and least understood speeches in world history, and that is a sad reflection, because thisword,sentence oration is one of the most important definitions of the purpose of government and the philosophy of what the United States thinks it should

be, ranking alongside the Declaration of Independence and The Constitution.
Simultaneously, it pays tribute to the incredible sacrifices of men who gave their lives to save that country and make its philosophy of government permanent.
Professor Wills's book attempts to plumb the well of how this speech came to be, its immediate, rhetorical, and historical roots, No, President Lincoln did not write it on the back of an envelope on the way up to Gettysburg, He dedicated considerable time to the speech in advance, He even gave a preview of it right after the Gettysburg victory, making a brief, off the cuff speech to people at the White House, celebrating that triumph and Vicksburg, referring to some of the themes he would expand upon.
Yes, reaction to the speech was mixed the media of the day was as partisan as it is today and some newspapers publicly called it dishwater utterances, with one paper in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, openly hoping that the veil of oblivion would pass over the remarks.
The keynote speaker, on the other hand, Edward Everett, who spent two hours narrating the course of the encounter, sent Lincoln a note wishing he had come to the point as well in two hours as Lincoln did in two minutes.
All of these subjects, and , are taken up by Professor Wills, and his literary, historical, and scholarly analysis shows why this speech rapidly became an almost sacred text in the United States, allwords being reprinted on plaques across America, ranging from one side of the interior of the Lincoln Memorial to an obscure marker in a side alcove in the City Hall of Newark, New Jersey.
One cannot go anywhere in America without being confronted with this speech and its vitally important message, There is, of course, an irony, My father's generation was required in its public school to learn and memorize the speech, I was merely required to learn it we didn't have the time to memorize it, I tried anyway, and didn't do very well, A few months ago, I got a call from a communications person at a public relations firm who wanted my boss, Cory A.
Booker, at that time Mayor of Newark, to appear at her PR company with the Grumpy Cat, I said, Aren't all cats grumpy having had a number of them as pets, She giggled and explained that this Grumpy Cat had just appeared on the NBC Today Show that morning, and they wanted to get a photo of him with the Mayor.
I had just turned down requests from NBC and CNN to interview the Mayor, and knew that if he was seen posing with the Grumpy Cat, those two networks would demand my head, and I shot the request down.
I then asked why on Earth a Grumpy Cat was newsworthy, and she told me the cat had an agent, An agent How do they communicate One 'meow' is 'Yes' Two 'meows' is 'No'She giggled, and our conversation moved on to the importance of importance, and it wandered over to Gettysburg, as we were close to theth anniversary of the Address.
She didn't know what it was, You know who the 'Grumpy Cat' is, but you don't know what the Gettysburg Address is, I said, exasperated, And you're in the communications business, She giggled. Is that the speech that starts off 'Four score and seven years ago' she asked, I told her it was, She wasn't familiar with it, I told her to order this book, gave her the link, and the conversation wrapped up, Then I wondered how many other people in positions of importance in this land there are who cannot tell me the importance of Abraham Lincoln's words.
They should all read this book, Then they can get back to me, There will be a test in the morning, This is the book that explains the background for the single most important speech in American history, and maybe the world's history, リンカーン大統領が南北戦争の激戦地ゲティースバーグで行ったあの有名な演説について前後の経緯や演説の分析いかに革新的であったかなど詳細な分析がされた本です　あの演説を初めて読みましたがわずか行余りの演説の力強さには感心しました　しかし大学の先生が書いた研究書のような本の難解さ英語のレベルの高さには閉口しました当然ながらリンカーンの演説の方が遥かに分かりやすいです Gettysburg Address:The oratory of ancient Greece with a touch of Shakespeare and we have perhaps the greatest eulogy ever written, I memorized thosewords in grade school, knowing little of their meaning, Now reading Garry Wills who dissects the speech as well as place it in context before and after the battle, one truly feels Lincolns anguish for the fallen on both sides of Picketts Charge and Chamberlains defense of Little Round Top.
Moves me to tears to recall Lincoln's anguish over the dead here at Gettysburg, Also recommend: Battle Cry of freedom by James McPherson, Absolutely brilliant read. Lifts my understanding of Abraham Lincoln and Gettysburg dedication to a whole new level, Thank you Mr Wills some of his books are a fascination for readers like in the Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America Simon Schuster Lincoln Library book, this is one of the most wanted Garry Wills author readers around the world.
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