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The Gettysburg Address

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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.

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.

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 "

I loved the art work in this particular work and felt it captured the essence of Lincoln's speach perfectly. I certainly am not going to do a critique on the speach itself, I really don't feel I have the right to do so. But I do feel the author/artist, through his black and white woodcut techinques added much to this famous work. It is certainly a book I am glad I added to my library. I have also found the kids at school seem to have a great appreciation for it also. Highly recommend this one.

This will be a wonderful gift for our grandson who is studying the Civil War. Beautifully done.

I can not see the pics on my Kindle, so this book amounted to me having a copy of the Gettysburg Address. I love the Address! I memorized it in elementary school when I was a kid. I already had the Gettysburg Address in the book with all 7 volumes of his writings on my Kindle that I got for under a dollar. I don't mind having just the Address by itself, but I wanted to see the pics. Oh well, maybe I will see the pics later or try to find them on the internet. It would be a lot better if I could see them on the Kindle. :)

Amazon has mixed the reviews of two different products:

1. Gettysburg Address [Kindle Edition] - A 9 kb text of only the Gettysburg Address

2. The Gettysburg Address [Paperback] - A 32 page paperback including illustrations and commentary.

This review is of Gettysburg Address [Kindle Edition].

There are five manuscripts of the Gettyburg Address extant:

1. John Nicolay Copy
2. John Hay Copy
3. Edward Everett Copy
4. George Bancroft Copy
5. Alexander Bliss Copy

In addition, a version was transcribed by the New York Times and printed on November 20, 1863.

This Kindle edition is a slight redaction of the Bancroft Copy. The differences are minor. The word written as "battle-field" by Lincoln is typed as "battlefield" in this version. Additionally, the punctuation is a bit distracting with the frequent use of ellipses in place of Lincoln's written dashes. Other than these minor nits, this is a useful text of the Gettysburg Address, one of the greatest speeches ever written.

Bought the book for my son for Christmas. It is a nice book he will enjoy. I thought it would be more about the speech but rather is just the speech with nice pictures.

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There are surely many who would like to own a copy of the Gettysburg Address. Read with an understanding of the times, one can't help but be moved by the eloquence of Lincoln's words, and the careful crafting that made this one short speech, so memorable.

What I am reviewing here is the Free "Vanilla Electronic Text" version of the speech which is available for Kindle. Though serviceable, I can't recommend it. For whatever reason, the publishers have chosen to replace commas with elipses. So that you get:

Quote:
Now we are engaged in a great civil war ... testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated ... can long endure.

REALLY?!?

Available elsewhere, for free.

Pam T~
mom/history lover