Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America
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OpisThe power of words has rarely been given a more 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 272 words. His entire life and previous training, and his deep political experience went into this, his revolutionary masterpiece. By 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. Moja ocenaOcene bralcevNapišite mnenje (Goodreads) Definitely not one of my favorites. I gave it 2 stars only because Lincoln and Civil War history are one of my favorite subjects, but overall I found this book to be pretty boring. I was expecting ... (Goodreads) The author digressed way too much from the topic at hand. Reading the book became an insufferable exercise. (Goodreads) Transformative. This book tied together many disparate threads, from Pericles' funeral speech to Transcendentalists to Lincoln's sense of comic timing to the "rural cemetary movement". At times I ... O avtorju |