Writing the Gettysburg Address

by Martin P. Johnson

Book Overview

Winner: Lincoln Prize

Four score and seven years ago . . . .

Are any six words better known, of greater import, or from a more crucial moment in our nation’: s history? And yet after 150 years the dramatic and surprising story of how Lincoln wrote the Gettysburg Address has never been fully told. Until now.

Martin Johnson's remarkable work of historical and literary detection illuminates a speech,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 070061933X
• ISBN13: 9780700619337
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.1"