The author looks at Abraham Lincoln's very brief 3 minute statement at Gettysburg in terms of the classic rhetorical formats of Greek & Rome.īut beyond that, he juxtaposes Lincoln's comments with those of the president of Harvard University Edward Everett, who delivered a 2 hour "classical" address to the same audience. With the Pulitzer Prize winning book, Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America Garry Wills performs a literary dissection of sorts of a prominent American document, examining both its structure & function in an exceedingly formal & intricate manner.
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