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Lincoln at Gettysburg

Author	: Garry Wills
Publisher	: Simon and Schuster
Release Date	: 2012-12-11
ISBN 10	: 9781439126455
Pages	: 320 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (264 users)

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Download or read book Lincoln at Gettysburg written by Garry Wills and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The power of words has rarely been given a 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 space of a mere 272 words. His entire life and previous training, and his deep political experience went into this, his revolutionary masterpiece. By examining both the address and Lincoln in their historical moment and cultural frame, 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 to effect an intellectual revolution, how his words had to and did complete the work of the guns, and how Lincoln wove a spell that has not yet been broken.

Lincoln at Gettysburg

Author	: Garry Wills
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1992
ISBN 10	: OCLC:608920481
Pages	: 254 pages
Rating	: 4.6/5 (92 users)

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Download or read book Lincoln at Gettysburg written by Garry Wills and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The words that remade America.

Gettysburg Address 105 Success Secrets - 105 Most Asked Questions on Gettysburg Address - What You Need to Know

Author	: Joan Rios
Publisher	: Emereo Publishing
Release Date	: 2014-09-28
ISBN 10	: 1488571341
Pages	: 116 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (41 users)

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Download or read book Gettysburg Address 105 Success Secrets - 105 Most Asked Questions on Gettysburg Address - What You Need to Know written by Joan Rios and published by Emereo Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-28 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new benchmark in Gettysburg Address. There has never been a Gettysburg Address Guide like this. It contains 105 answers, much more than you can imagine; comprehensive answers and extensive details and references, with insights that have never before been offered in print. Get the information you need--fast! This all-embracing guide offers a thorough view of key knowledge and detailed insight. This Guide introduces what you want to know about Gettysburg Address. A quick look inside of some of the subjects covered: Emancipation Proclamation - Gettysburg Address, Pennsylvania in the American Civil War - Military actions in Pennsylvania, Daniel Webster - Film TV, US Declaration of Independence, Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln - The Walt Disney Story Featuring Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln: The Journey to Gettysburg, List of orators - Modern era, John Nicolay - In popular culture, Jim Crow laws - Origins of Jim Crow laws, Gettysburg Address - Resolution, Oscar B. Cintas - Collector, Animatronics - History, Declaration of Independence - Lincoln and the Declaration, Edward Everett, Henry Kirke Bush-Brown - Works at Gettysburg battlefield, Theodore Parker - Film TV, List of Doctor Who supporting characters - Other humans, Gettysburg Address - Lincoln's sources, Abraham Lincoln and religion - 1863: Gettysburg, Continental Congress - Legacy, Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America, Gettysburg Battlefield - History, Alliteration - Alliteration in Rhetoric, The Gettysburg Address (film) - Release, The Patriot-News - History, American exceptionalism - Republican ethos and ideas about nationhood, Gettysburg Address - Background, Ward Hill Lamon - Film TV, Gettysburg Address - Bancroft copy, Evergreen Cemetery (Adams County, Pennsylvania), Edward Everett - Film TV, Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln - Current version, and much more...

The True Story Behind Lincoln's Gettysburg Address

Author	: Jennifer Armstrong
Publisher	: Simon and Schuster
Release Date	: 2013-09-03
ISBN 10	: 9781442493872
Pages	: 97 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (938 users)

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Download or read book The True Story Behind Lincoln's Gettysburg Address written by Jennifer Armstrong and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the historical background in the Civil War of the famous speech made during the dedication of the new national cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and the impact it had on the United States throughout the years.

Writing the Gettysburg Address

Author	: Martin P. Johnson
Publisher	: University Press of Kansas
Release Date	: 2015-04-10
ISBN 10	: 9780700621125
Pages	: 336 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (211 users)

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Download or read book Writing the Gettysburg Address written by Martin P. Johnson and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2015-04-10 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, a man, and a moment in history that we thought we knew. Johnson guides readers on Lincoln’s emotional and intellectual journey to the speaker’s platform, revealing that Lincoln himself experienced writing the Gettysburg Address as an eventful process that was filled with the possibility of failure, but which he knew resulted finally in success beyond expectation. We listen as Lincoln talks with the cemetery designer about the ideals and aspirations behind the unprecedented cemetery project, look over Lincoln's shoulder as he rethinks and rewrites his speech on the very morning of the ceremony, and share his anxiety that he might not live up to the occasion. And then, at last, we stand with Lincoln at Gettysburg, when he created the words and image of an enduring and authentic legend. Writing the Gettysburg Address resolves the puzzles and problems that have shrouded the composition of Lincoln's most admired speech in mystery for fifteen decades. Johnson shows when Lincoln first started his speech, reveals the state of the document Lincoln brought to Gettysburg, traces the origin of the false story that Lincoln wrote his speech on the train, identifies the manuscript Lincoln held while speaking, and presents a new method for deciding what Lincoln’s audience actually heard him say. Ultimately, Johnson shows that the Gettysburg Address was a speech that grew and changed with each step of Lincoln's eventful journey to the podium. His two-minute speech made the battlefield and the cemetery into landmarks of the American imagination, but it was Lincoln’s own journey to Gettysburg that made the Gettysburg Address.

Abraham Lincoln, the Quakers, and the Civil War: "A Trial of Principle and Faith"

Author	: William C. Kashatus
Publisher	: ABC-CLIO
Release Date	: 2014-09-16
ISBN 10	: 9781440833205
Pages	: 180 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (332 users)

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Download or read book Abraham Lincoln, the Quakers, and the Civil War: "A Trial of Principle and Faith" written by William C. Kashatus and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 2014-09-16 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique addition to Civil War literature examines the extensive influence Quaker belief and practice had on Lincoln's decisions relative to slavery, including his choice to emancipate the slaves. • Explains the critical role Quakers exercised in Lincoln's prosecution of the Civil War • Reveals how Quakers employed their historic commitments to abolitionism and pacifism to convince Lincoln of the necessity of emancipation, freedmen's relief and education, and conscientious objection • Highlights Lincoln's interactions and correspondence with individual British and American Quakers and Quaker groups • Provides readers with important context necessary to understand one of the nation's most respected humanitarian groups • Includes nearly two dozen period photographs that provide a fascinating glimpse into long-ago history • Examines the Quakers' 150-year crusade against slavery, their efforts to improve the conditions of free blacks, and the religious beliefs that informed those activities

Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and the Battle of Gettysburg Through Primary Sources

Author	: Carin T. Ford
Publisher	: Enslow Publishing, LLC
Release Date	: 2013-01-01
ISBN 10	: 9780766057265
Pages	: 48 pages
Rating	: 4.6/5 (572 users)

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Download or read book Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and the Battle of Gettysburg Through Primary Sources written by Carin T. Ford and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This nation...shall have a new birth of freedom. President Abraham Lincoln delivered these words in his Gettysburg Address, a speech commemorating the fallen soldiers at the Battle of Gettysburg. The three-day battle, the bloodiest ever fought on American soil, was a turning point in the Civil War. The Union claimed victory, and the Confederacy suffered heavy losses, but both sides had thousands of casualties. Author Carin T. Ford explores this pivotal battle in American history and the famous speech that memorialized it forever.

The Battle of Gettysburg and Lincoln's Gettysburg Address

Author	: Carin T. Ford
Publisher	: Enslow Publishers, Inc.
Release Date	: 2004
ISBN 10	: 0766022536
Pages	: 52 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (36 users)

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Download or read book The Battle of Gettysburg and Lincoln's Gettysburg Address written by Carin T. Ford and published by Enslow Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed account of the three days of the Battle of Gettysburg, the bloodiest war fought on American soil, plus an examination of Abraham Lincoln's famous Gettysburg address.

The Long Shadow of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address

Author	: Jared Peatman
Publisher	: SIU Press
Release Date	: 2013-10-30
ISBN 10	: 9780809333103
Pages	: 267 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (331 users)

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Download or read book The Long Shadow of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address written by Jared Peatman and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2013-10-30 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Abraham Lincoln addressed the crowd at the new national cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on November 19, 1863, he intended his speech to be his most eloquent statement on the inextricable link between equality and democracy. However, unwilling to commit to equality at that time, the nation stood ill-prepared to accept the full message of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. In the ensuing century, groups wishing to advance a particular position hijacked Lincoln’s words for their own ends, highlighting the specific parts of the speech that echoed their stance while ignoring the rest. Only as the nation slowly moved toward equality did those invoking Lincoln’s speech come closer to recovering his true purpose. In this incisive work, Jared Peatman seeks to understand Lincoln’s intentions at Gettysburg and how his words were received, invoked, and interpreted over time, providing a timely and insightful analysis of one of America’s most legendary orations. After reviewing the events leading up to November 19, 1863, Peatman examines immediate responses to the ceremony in New York, Gettysburg itself, Confederate Richmond, and London, showing how parochial concerns and political affiliations shaped initial coverage of the day and led to the censoring of Lincoln’s words in some locales. He then traces how, over time, proponents of certain ideals invoked the particular parts of the address that suited their message, from reunification early in the twentieth century to American democracy and patriotism during the world wars and, finally, to Lincoln’s full intended message of equality during the Civil War centennial commemorations and the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Peatman also explores foreign invocations of the Gettysburg Address and its influence on both the Chinese constitution of 1912 and the current French constitution. An epilogue highlights recent and even current applications of the Gettysburg Address and hints at ways the speech might be used in the future. By tracing the evolution of Lincoln’s brief words at a cemetery dedication into a revered document essential to American national identity, this revealing work provides fresh insight into the enduring legacy of Abraham Lincoln and his Gettysburg Address on American history and culture.

Legal Rights

Author	: Austin Sarat
Publisher	: University of Michigan Press
Release Date	: 2009-11-10
ISBN 10	: 9780472023615
Pages	: 328 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (236 users)

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Download or read book Legal Rights written by Austin Sarat and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2009-11-10 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of legal rights today enjoys virtually universal appeal, yet all too often the meaning and significance of rights are poorly understood. The purpose of this volume is to clarify the subject of legal rights by drawing on both historical and philosophical legal scholarship to bridge the gap between these two genres--a gap that has divorced abstract and normative treatments of rights from an understanding of their particular social and cultural contexts. Legal Rights: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives shows that the meaning and extent of rights has been dramatically expanded in this century, though along with the widespread and flourishing popularity of rights, voices of criticism have increasingly been raised. The authors take up the question of the foundation of rights and explore the postmodern challenges to efforts to ground rights outside of history and language. Drawing rich historical analysis and careful philosophical inquiry into productive dialogue, this book explores the many facets of rights at the end of the twentieth century. In these essays, potentially abstract debates come alive as they are related to the struggles of real people attempting to cope with, and improve, their living conditions. The significance of legal rights is measured not just in terms of philosophical categories or as a collection of histories, but as they are experienced in the lives of men and women seeking to come to terms with rights in contemporary life. Contributors are Hadley Arkes, William E. Cain, Thomas Haskell, Morton J. Horwitz, Annabel Patterson, Michael J. Perry, Pierre Schlag, and Jeremy Waldron. Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College. Thomas R. Kearns is William H. Hastie Professor of Philosophy, Amherst College.

American Politics and the African American Quest for Universal Freedom

Author	: Hanes Walton, Jr
Publisher	: Taylor & Francis
Release Date	: 2017-03-30
ISBN 10	: 9781317218623
Pages	: 435 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (186 users)

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Download or read book American Politics and the African American Quest for Universal Freedom written by Hanes Walton, Jr and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-03-30 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dynamic and comprehensive text from nationally renowned scholars continues to demonstrate the profound influence African Americans have had -- and continue to have -- on American politics. Through the use of two interrelated themes -- the idea of universal freedom and the concept of minority-majority coalitions -- the text demonstrates how the presence of Africans in the United States affected the founding of the Republic and its political institutions and processes. The authors show that through the quest for their own freedom in the United States, African Americans have universalized and expanded the freedoms of all Americans. New to the Eighth Edition A new co-author, Sherri L. Wallace, is renowned for her teaching, scholarship, and participation in APSA’s American government textbook assessment for coverage of race, ethnicity, and gender. She is the perfect addition following an election year that included female presidential candidates as well as candidates of color and issues focusing on racial tension and inequality. Offers a new Media Integration Guide for the first time. Provides the first overall assessment of the Obama administration in relation to domestic and foreign policy and racial politics in particular. Updated through the 2016 elections, connecting the Obama years with the new administration. Looks at candidates Hillary Clinton and Ben Carson in particular in relation to the themes of the book. Adds a new section on State Politics and Elections. Includes new sections on intersectionality dealing with issues of race, gender and sexuality; LGBT issues as another manifestation of the struggle for universal freedom; a discussion of the "Black Lives Matter" movement; and a new section focusing on the changing character of black ethnicity as result of increased immigration from Africa and the Caribbean. Discusses the way in which race contributed to the polarization of American politics; the connections to the Tea Party; and the Obama Presidency and the 2016 presidential campaign as the most polarized since the advent of polling. Previews the impact of the Trump Administration on matters of race and ethnicity.

American Politics and the African American Quest for Universal Freedom

Author	: Hanes Walton
Publisher	: Routledge
Release Date	: 2015-10-16
ISBN 10	: 9781317350453
Pages	: 369 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (54 users)

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Download or read book American Politics and the African American Quest for Universal Freedom written by Hanes Walton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-16 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dynamic and comprehensive text from two nationally renowned scholars continues to demonstrate the profound influence African Americans have had -- and continue to have -- on American politics. Through the use of two interrelated themes -- the idea of universal freedom and the concept of minority-majority coalitions -- the text demonstrates how the presence of Africans in the United States affected the founding of the Republic and its political institutions and processes. The authors show that through the quest for their own freedom in the United States, African Americans have universalized and expanded the freedoms of all Americans.

Prophecy without Contempt

Author	: Cathleen Kaveny
Publisher	: Harvard University Press
Release Date	: 2016-03-07
ISBN 10	: 9780674969384
Pages	: pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (693 users)

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Download or read book Prophecy without Contempt written by Cathleen Kaveny and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The culture wars have as much to do with rhetorical style as moral substance. Cathleen Kaveny focuses on a powerful stream of religious discourse in American political speech: the Biblical rhetoric of prophetic indictment. It can be strong medicine against threats to the body politic, she shows, but used injudiciously it does more harm than good.

Our Country

Author	: Grant R. Brodrecht
Publisher	: Fordham University Press
Release Date	: 2018-06-05
ISBN 10	: 9780823279937
Pages	: 288 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (799 users)

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Download or read book Our Country written by Grant R. Brodrecht and published by Fordham University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On March 4, 1865, the day Abraham Lincoln delivered his second inaugural address, Reverend Doctor George Peck put the finishing touches on a collection of his sermons that he intended to send to the president. Although the politically moderate Peck had long opposed slavery, he, along with many other northern evangelicals, was not an abolitionist. During the Civil War he had come to support emancipation, but, like Lincoln, the conflict remained first and foremost about preserving the Union. Believing their devotion to the Union was an act of faithfulness to God first and the Founding Fathers second, Our Country explores how many northern white evangelical Protestants sacrificed racial justice on behalf of four million African-American slaves (and then ex-slaves) for the Union’s persistence and continued flourishing as a Christian nation. By examining Civil War-era Protestantism in terms of the Union, author Grant Brodrecht adds to the understanding of northern motivation and the eventual "failure" of Reconstruction to provide a secure basis for African American's equal place in society. Complementing recent scholarship that gives primacy to the Union, Our Country contends that non-radical Protestants consistently subordinated concern for racial justice for what they perceived to be the greater good. Mainstream evangelicals did not enter Reconstruction with the primary aim of achieving racial justice. Rather they expected to see the emergence of a speedily restored, prosperous, and culturally homogenous Union, a Union strengthened by God through the defeat of secession and the removal of slavery as secession’s cause. Brodrecht eloquently addresses this so-called “proprietary” regard for Christian America, considered within the context of crises surrounding the Union’s existence and its nature from the Civil War to the 1880s. Including sources from major Protestant denominations, the book rests on a selection of sermons, denominational newspapers and journals, autobiographies, archival personal papers of several individuals, and the published and unpublished papers of Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, and Ulysses S. Grant. The author examines these sources as they address the period’s evangelical sense of responsibility for America, while keyed to issues of national and presidential politics. Northern evangelicals’ love of the Union arguably contributed to its preservation and the slaves’ emancipation, but in subsuming the ex-slaves to their vision for Christian America, northern evangelicals contributed to a Reconstruction that failed to ensure the ex-slaves’ full freedom and equality as Americans.

American Civil War: Facts and Fictions

Author	: James R. Hedtke
Publisher	: ABC-CLIO
Release Date	: 2018-08-17
ISBN 10	: 9781440860744
Pages	: 225 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (67 users)

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Download or read book American Civil War: Facts and Fictions written by James R. Hedtke and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 2018-08-17 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book debunks popular myths and misconceptions about the American Civil War through primary source documents and shows how misinformation can become so widespread. • Provides readers with a clear understanding of how myths about the Civil War originated and propagated in American memory • Debunks popular myths with facts supported by primary sources • Provides students with the resources to conduct their own research into each topic area • Examines controversial myths that continue to have a large impact on American politics and society today, including popular misconceptions about the very origins of the Civil War

The Committed Word

Author	: James Engell
Publisher	: Penn State Press
Release Date	: 2010-11
ISBN 10	: 9780271038919
Pages	: 214 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (389 users)

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Download or read book The Committed Word written by James Engell and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the past century, literary education, often divorced from rhetoric, has grown increasingly distant from the practice of language in statecraft, law, religion, and ethics. Yet literature and rhetoric retain open, independent powers to enhance what Emerson calls &"the conduct of life.&" In these provocative essays, James Engell argues that a more complete literary training can foster a heightened sense of shared social experience, an awareness of diverse views, a love of language, and a more powerful ability to express the values we enshrine or debate. Revealing a set of deep intersections among literature, politics, rhetoric, and the public deliberation of values, he explores how dedicated individuals of different callings resort to heightened language in order to secure knowledge, test beliefs, consider policy, and promote action. Through profiles of Lincoln, Burke, Swift, Hume, Lowth, Vico, and others, Engell explores the political and ethical involvement of writers with their culture in order to reestablish links between literary qualities of language and the means by which we challenge power and secure liberty. He presents a cogent argument for a different, expanded kind of literary education, suggesting that training in rhetoric, now often misunderstood or neglected, can serve the common good without becoming mired in partisan squabbles or academic pedantry. Despite the dominance of visual media in our society, observes Engell, the difficult problems we face must be resolved through language. By presenting writers who use resourceful language to engage political contests and cultural issues, he contributes to ongoing debates in education, politics, and culture without subscribing to easy labels of &"left&" and &"right&" or &"traditional&" versus &"innovative.&" He demonstrates imaginative ways to apply time-tested literary techniques to a changing world, making use of the past yet in a way that the past could not predict. This passionately argued book calls for a shift in the ways we teach and regard literature.

Solemn Affairs

Author	: Nicholas Alahverdian
Publisher	: Nicholas Alahverdian Press
Release Date	: 2018-09-28
ISBN 10	:
Pages	: 20 pages
Rating	: 4./5 ( users)

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Download or read book Solemn Affairs written by Nicholas Alahverdian and published by Nicholas Alahverdian Press. This book was released on 2018-09-28 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is a speech that denies itself as memorable bound to be forgotten, or will it be known throughout the world for ages to come? An ideal example of this ironic plight is the Gettysburg Address, now one of the most widely remarked upon speeches in American history. Did the speech surreptitiously employ a humble approach to enable the memorialization of this speech? Or was it truly an unintentional masterpiece of American rhetoric? Lincoln’s revered speech, as well as historical newspaper commentary related to its legacy, have been studied for decades by historians and critics. The Address is arguably one of the most effective speeches of all time, and not just in American history. But what was its captivating power: its striking lines? Its brevity? Its patriotism?