Description |
1 online resource (xii, 323 pages) : illustrations |
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Book collections on Project MUSE
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Contents |
NOVEMBER; NOVEMBER 1: Years Ago (All Saints); NOVEMBER 2: Our Fathers (L.L.); NOVEMBER 3: Brought Forth (Pen and Sword); NOVEMBER 4: In Vain (Lycidas); NOVEMBER 5: The Living and the Dead (Character); NOVEMBER 9: Never Forget (Nights of Broken Glass); NOVEMBER 11: Long Endure (Armistice Day); NOVEMBER 14: The Brave Men (Ia Drang); NOVEMBER 15: A Great Civil War (Virginia Wade); NOVEMBER 16: Final Resting Place (Sanctuary); NOVEMBER 17: What We Say Here (The Other Address); NOVEMBER 18: We Have Come to Dedicate (The Visitor); NOVEMBER 19: The Gettysburg Address |
Summary |
It begins with the search for hallowed ground, the exact place from which Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address. In bleak November, Kent Gramm makes a pilgrimage to the most famous battleground in American history and over the course of a month transforms his search into a discovery of the meaning of Lincoln's elegy for America's identity. For Gramm, the century that began with Lincoln's address and ended with the assassinations of the 1960s saw the destruction of the 'modern' world and with it |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-315) and index |
Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. Gettysburg address.
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Gramm, Kent -- Travel -- Pennsylvania -- Gettysburg National Military Park
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Gram family.
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Gram family fast |
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Gramm, Kent fast |
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Lincoln, Abraham. Gettysburg address. swd |
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Gettysburg address (Lincoln, Abraham) fast |
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Anniversaries -- Social aspects -- United States
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Memorials -- Social aspects -- United States
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November.
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Heroes -- United States
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National characteristics, American.
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Postmodernism -- Social aspects -- United States
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HISTORY.
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Civilization -- Philosophy
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Heroes
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Memorials -- Social aspects
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National characteristics, American
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November
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Postmodernism -- Social aspects
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Travel
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SUBJECT |
United States -- Civilization -- Philosophy.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139966
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Pennsylvania -- Gettysburg National Military Park
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United States
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Electronic book
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LC no. |
2001002228 |
ISBN |
0253108608 |
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9780253108609 |
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1282066072 |
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9781282066076 |
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9786612066078 |
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6612066075 |
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