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The energy of words has rarely been given a far 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 area of only 272 words. His life time and previous training, and his deep political experience went into this, his revolutionary masterpiece. By examining both address and Lincoln in their historical moment and cultural frame, Wills breathes new lease of 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 effect an intellectual revolution, how his words had to and did complete the task of the guns, and exactly how Lincoln wove a spell that has not yet been broken.
