The Gettysburg Address [Turtleback]

Abraham Lincoln (Author), Garry Wills (Foreword), Michael McCurdy (Illustrator)

Product Details

• Turtleback
• Publisher: Demco Media (January 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0606155465
• ISBN-13: 978-0606155465
• Product Dimensions: 11.8 x 9 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,994,037 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Gettysburg Address, May 7, 2000

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no (San Antonio, Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Gettysburg Address (Hardcover)

This is an incredible book. The Gettysburg Address was something I had to learn in school, but reading this book brings the speech to life.

I makes you really think about what is being said and brings it more to life. I have visited the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. and the Gettysburg Address is incredible in Marble but in this book it really makes you think about what happened during the Civil War and what it means to us today.

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Stark woodcuts communicate nobility and tragedy., December 9, 2001

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Nanette "Nanette W" (TX USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Gettysburg Address (Hardcover)

I read this book aloud to my children. The text is simply the Gettysburg address, broken into phrases with an illustration for each thought. Two-thirds of the way through the book, I found myself weeping. The combination of Lincoln's eloquence and the illustrations touched me. I would recommend using this book to introduce students of any age to Lincoln's famous speech and the history associated with it.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The soul of America is in this speech, January 31, 2005

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Shalom Freedman "Shalom Freedman" (Jerusalem,Israel) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Gettysburg Address (Paperback)

What does Lincoln do at Gettysburg? Why are his words as moving today as they were when he uttered them?
I think that what he did is that he defined for America and Americans what it is, and what it means to be to itself. He did this in the most dignified and moving language imaginable with its deep Biblical cadences and its underlying tone of grief and dedication. He invokes the 'brave men living and dead'the heroic sacrifice of the war in order to urge a new dedication of freedom a new and higher realization of that fundamental human value which is so closely connected with the whole American enterprise. He defines not simply for those there, for those on that field the living and the dead, but for all American generations a ' new birth of freedom, so that government of the people by the people for the people shall not perish from this earth "