{"product_id":"writing-the-gettysburg-address","title":"Writing the Gettysburg Address","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner: Lincoln Prize 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 Johnsons 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 Lincolns emotional and intellectual journey to the speakers 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 Lincolns 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 Lincolns 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 Lincolns audience actually heard him say. Ultimately  Johnson shows that the Gettysburg Address was a speech that grew and changed with each step of Lincolns eventful journey to the podium. His two-minute speech made the battlefield and the cemetery into landmarks of the American imagination  but it was Lincolns own journey to Gettysburg that made the Gettysburg Address.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44986189217845,"sku":"ByrdShop_0700621121","price":32.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780700621125.jpg?v=1770891272","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/writing-the-gettysburg-address","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}