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Writing the Gettysburg Address (Paperback)
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Writing the Gettysburg Address (Paperback)
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Four score and seven years ago . . . . Are any six words better
known, of greater import, or from a more crucial moment in our
nation's history? And yet after 150 years the dramatic and
surprising story of how Lincoln wrote the Gettysburg Address has
never been fully told. Until now. Martin Johnson's remarkable work
of historical and literary detection illuminates a speech, a man,
and a moment in history that we thought we knew. Johnson guides
readers on Lincoln's emotional and intellectual journey to the
speaker's platform, revealing that Lincoln himself experienced
writing the Gettysburg Address as an eventful process that was
filled with the possibility of failure, but which he knew resulted
finally in success beyond expectation. We listen as Lincoln talks
with the cemetery designer about the ideals and aspirations behind
the unprecedented cemetery project, look over Lincoln's shoulder as
he rethinks and rewrites his speech on the very morning of the
ceremony, and share his anxiety that he might not live up to the
occasion. And then, at last, we stand with Lincoln at Gettysburg,
when he created the words and image of an enduring and authentic
legend. Writing the Gettysburg Address resolves the puzzles and
problems that have shrouded the composition of Lincoln's most
admired speech in mystery for fifteen decades. Johnson shows when
Lincoln first started his speech, reveals the state of the document
Lincoln brought to Gettysburg, traces the origin of the false story
that Lincoln wrote his speech on the train, identifies the
manuscript Lincoln held while speaking, and presents a new method
for deciding what Lincoln's audience actually heard him say.
Ultimately, Johnson shows that the Gettysburg Address was a speech
that grew and changed with each step of Lincoln's eventful journey
to the podium. His two-minute speech made the battlefield and the
cemetery into landmarks of the American imagination, but it was
Lincoln's own journey to Gettysburg that made the Gettysburg
Address.
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