The Gettysburg Address
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Publisher Description
Four and a half months after the Union Army defeated the Confederacy at the Battle of Gettysburg, President Abraham Lincoln gave a dedication speech to the Soldiers’ National Cemetery in the same city. It is one of the most well-known speeches in United States history.
The speech itself was read in a little more than two minutes yet the careful wording and presentation identified for everyone that the principles the nation was built on during the Revolutionary War still rang true: Equality for all mankind, without persecution or an inhibiting of freedom.
There are five copies of the speech, the first two given to each of Lincoln’s secretaries and the other three copied after the speech was presented and given by Lincoln for charitable purposes.
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McCurdy creates powerful, large-scale black-and-white illustrations like those in his Giants in the Land to match Abraham Lincoln's classic speech in this handsome volume. On oversize pages, scenes of Lincoln delivering the address at the Gettysburg battlefield alternate with visualizations of the imagery contained in it. For example, a line of people carrying building tools marches across the pages as Lincoln proclaims that ``it is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work.'' As Lincoln concludes, resolving that ``government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth,'' the cheering crowd gazes out from the page into the future-a fitting conclusion to an American classic made new again. All ages.
