 Plowing Hallowed Ground: The Address, Word by Word
Janet Maslin reviews Gabor Boritt's book, "The Gettysburg Gospel". THE GETTYSBURG GOSPEL The Lincoln Speech That Nobody Knows
By Gabor Boritt.
Illustrated. 415 pp. Simon & Schuster. $28. Quote: |
Professor Boritt begins by setting the scene on July 4, 1863, as the people of Gettysburg emerge from their shelters to face the tableau of devastation on the battlefield. He writes of how the town was missing its men, cut off from the outside world, surrounded by shocking carnage and seared by the anguish of relatives seeking to bury soldiers.
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“The Gettysburg Address was, above all, a war speech,” the book stresses. “To the degree it was heard in 1863, it helped people come to terms with massive death.”
| http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/04/bo...756a45&ei=5070
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