Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America

The power of words has rarely been given a more compelling demonstration than in the Gettysburg Address. Lincoln was asked to memorialize the battle: instead, he gave the whole nation "a new birth of freedom" in the space of a mere 272 words. By examining both the address and Lincoln in their historical moment, Wills breathes new 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 ... and how his words had to and did complete the work of the guns.Garry Wills is the author of 'Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America' with ISBN 9780783888576 and ISBN 0783888570.