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Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America (Simon & Schuster Lincoln Library) (Reprint Edition) by Garry Wills Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2006 ISBN-10: 0-7432-9963-9 / 0743299639 ISBN-13: 978-0-7432-9963-3 / 9780743299633 In a masterly work, Garry Wills shows how Lincoln reached back to the Declaration of Independence to write the greatest speech in the nation’s history.The power of words has rarely been given a more compelling demonstration than in the Gettysburg Address. Lincoln was asked to memorialize the gruesom |