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Lincoln At Gettysburg eBook

The Words That Remade America

by Garry Wills
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Publisher: Simon & Schuster, December of 2012 ‧
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The 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.

Lincoln At Gettysburg

The Words That Remade America

by Garry Wills

Property Description
ISBN: 9781439126455
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Release Date: December of 2012
Language: English
Format: eBook
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Categories: eBooks in English > Tourist Guides and Maps > North America
EAN: 9781439126455
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Garry Wills

O historiador Garry Wills é um dos mais conhecidos e prolíficos pensadores católicos norte-americanos da actualidade. Autor de uma vasta obra ensaística, considerou na juventude seguir a carreira eclesiástica, e chegou a ingressar num seminário jesuíta, que abandonou passados seis anos. Dedicou-se a partir de então à vida académica, primeiro na universidade de St Louis, onde se formou, mais tarde na Xavier University of Cincinnati, onde tirou o mestrado, e na Universidade de Yale, onde conclui um doutoramento em Línguas e Literaturas Clássicas. Paralelamente, afirmou-se como crítico literário e de teatro, tradutor e escritor. Famoso pelas suas posições conservadoras na juventude, o autor é hoje visto como um católico liberal, que tanto critica abertamente a Igreja (na obra Papal Sin, por exemplo), como defende publicamente o sua fé (leia-se o best-seller Why I Am a Catholic).

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