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The words Abraham Lincoln spoke at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery at Gettysburg comprise possibly the most famous speech in history. Many books have been written about the Gettysburg Address yet, as Lincoln scholar Gabor Boritt shows, there is a lot that we have no idea about the speech. In The Gettysburg Gospel he tears away a hundred years of myths, lies, and legends to provide us a understanding of the greatest American's greatest speech.
In the aftermath of the bloodiest battle ever fought in North America, the tiny town of Gettysburg was overwhelmed. This was where Lincoln had to come to describe why the horror of war must continue. Boritt shows how Lincoln taken care of immediately the politics of that time period, as well as how so when he wrote the many versions of his remarks. Few people at first recognized the importance of the speech, but over time it would grow into American scripture, acquiring new and broader meanings.
Based on many years of scholarship as well as a deep knowledge of Lincoln and of Gettysburg itself, The Gettysburg Gospel is an indispensable book for anybody enthusiastic about the Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War, or American history
