The Gettysburg Gospel: The Lincoln Speech That Nobody Knows by Gabor Boritt
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I like to read books before the movie, so I read this to prepare for "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" and get the correct role people like Will Johnson and Joshua Speed had to in Lincoln's life.
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Seriously, this is a great book about the cemetary consecration speech how it came to be (not on the back of envelope enroute in the train), what else went on that day, the battle and its repercurrsions (this also extensively covered in appendixes) and why the Emancipation Proclamation, as dry as it is, subsumed this concise bit of eloquence before buyer's remorse over racal integration caused the mythologizing populace to choose to see Lincol as wordsmith and not chain-breaker.
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