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Author Gramm, Kent

Title November : Lincoln's elegy at Gettysburg / Kent Gramm
Published Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 323 pages) : illustrations
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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
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Subject Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. Gettysburg address.
Gramm, Kent -- Travel -- Pennsylvania -- Gettysburg National Military Park
Gram family.
SUBJECT Gram family fast
Gramm, Kent fast
Lincoln, Abraham. Gettysburg address. swd
Gettysburg address (Lincoln, Abraham) fast
Subject Anniversaries -- Social aspects -- United States
Memorials -- Social aspects -- United States
November.
Heroes -- United States
National characteristics, American.
Postmodernism -- Social aspects -- United States
HISTORY.
Civilization -- Philosophy
Heroes
Memorials -- Social aspects
National characteristics, American
November
Postmodernism -- Social aspects
Travel
SUBJECT United States -- Civilization -- Philosophy. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139966
Subject Pennsylvania -- Gettysburg National Military Park
United States
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2001002228
ISBN 0253108608
9780253108609
1282066072
9781282066076
9786612066078
6612066075