The book garnered a Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award more than a decade ago. Around 6,000 copies were mailed to incoming freshmen and transfer students over the summer with the goal of stimulating campuswide discussion of a single literary work, program organizers said. Wills’ book is featured this year in UC Berkeley’s On the Same Page program. Chapters on 19th century oratory, the rural cemetery movement and Lincoln’s choice of words provide context, but those aren’t the parts of the book that make it important. He tried to expel fanaticism in times of war.” The brilliant author Garry Wills did a public service when he wrote this book about Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. “Lincoln was always trying to calm people down in times of religious fervor. Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America, by Garry Wills (Simon & Schuster) Share: Twitter Facebook Email. The power of words has rarely been given a more. There have been some hellish things about religion and politics lately,” Wills said. Such a work is Garry Wills recent book-length study, Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America (1992), which in 1993 received both a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award. Read Lincoln at Gettysburg The Words that Remade America by Garry Wills available from Rakuten Kobo. “This too is a time of great trouble in many ways. Speaking to about 600 people, Wills discussed his book, “Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America,” touching on the religious and political circumstances that surrounded the president and his famous speech. It’s not often that students hear a speech about a speech, especially not one given nearly 150 years ago.īut last night at Zellerbach Hall, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills argued that Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address remains as relevant in the 21st century as it was during the Civil War. Lincoln at Gettysburg The power of words has rarely been given a more compelling demonstration than in the Gettysburg Address.

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