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Essay Galaxy - Lincoln At Gettysburg-the Mani Lincoln's Gettysburg Address The Manipulation of Language

The power of words has rarely been given a more compelling demonstration than in the Gettysburg Address. Lincoln was asked to memorialize a gruesome battle. Instead he gave the whole nation "a new birth of freedom". By tracing its first birth to the Declaration of Independence (which called all men equal) rather than to the Constitution (which tolerated slavery). In the space of a mere 272 words, Lincoln brought to bear the rhetoric of the Greek Revival, the categories of Transcendentalism, and the imagery of the "rural cemetery" movement. In his book, Gary wills, by examining both, the Address and Lincoln in their historical moment and cultural frame, breathes new life into words we thought we knew and reveals much about a President so mythologi....

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