The Resource Writing the Gettysburg Address, Martin P. Johnson
Writing the Gettysburg Address, Martin P. Johnson
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- Summary
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- "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"--
- "The first comprehensive history of the composition of one of the most famous and iconic speeches in American history, one that persuasively resolves previously unresolved issues relating the speech and enriches our understanding of how the speech reflected Lincoln's evolving ideas"--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- x, 322 pages
- Contents
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- Introduction: The mysteries of the manuscript
- "It will be an interesting ceremony"
- The Washington draft
- A celebrated railway journey
- Revisions in Gettysburg
- The Gettysburg draft
- The battlefield draft
- "What they did here"
- "My remarks at Gettysburg"
- Conclusion: Who wrote the Gettysburg Address?
- Isbn
- 9780700619337
- Label
- Writing the Gettysburg Address
- Title
- Writing the Gettysburg Address
- Statement of responsibility
- Martin P. Johnson
- Subject
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- Gettysburg address (Lincoln, Abraham)
- HISTORY -- United States -- Civil War Period (1850-1877)
- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Presidents & Heads of State
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Political and social views
- Political and social views
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
- Language
- eng
- Summary
-
- "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"--
- "The first comprehensive history of the composition of one of the most famous and iconic speeches in American history, one that persuasively resolves previously unresolved issues relating the speech and enriches our understanding of how the speech reflected Lincoln's evolving ideas"--
- Assigning source
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- Provided by publisher
- Provided by publisher
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Johnson, Martin P
- Dewey number
- 973.7/349
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- E475.55
- LC item number
- .J65 2013
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State University. Libraries)
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Lincoln, Abraham
- Lincoln, Abraham
- Lincoln, Abraham
- HISTORY
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
- Political and social views
- Label
- Writing the Gettysburg Address, Martin P. Johnson
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-314) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: The mysteries of the manuscript -- "It will be an interesting ceremony" -- The Washington draft -- A celebrated railway journey -- Revisions in Gettysburg -- The Gettysburg draft -- The battlefield draft -- "What they did here" -- "My remarks at Gettysburg" -- Conclusion: Who wrote the Gettysburg Address?
- Control code
- ocn840162014
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- x, 322 pages
- Isbn
- 9780700619337
- Lccn
- 2013020162
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) i9780700619337
- (OCoLC)840162014
- Label
- Writing the Gettysburg Address, Martin P. Johnson
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-314) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: The mysteries of the manuscript -- "It will be an interesting ceremony" -- The Washington draft -- A celebrated railway journey -- Revisions in Gettysburg -- The Gettysburg draft -- The battlefield draft -- "What they did here" -- "My remarks at Gettysburg" -- Conclusion: Who wrote the Gettysburg Address?
- Control code
- ocn840162014
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- x, 322 pages
- Isbn
- 9780700619337
- Lccn
- 2013020162
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9780700619337
- (OCoLC)840162014
Subject
- Gettysburg address (Lincoln, Abraham)
- HISTORY -- United States -- Civil War Period (1850-1877)
- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Presidents & Heads of State
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Political and social views
- Political and social views
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
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