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Gettysburg replies : the world responds to Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address /
"The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library [Foundation] challenged presidents, judges, historians, filmmakers, poets, actors, and others to craft 272 words of their own to celebrate Lincoln, the Gettysburg Address, or a related topic that stirs their passions ... [The book] features images of im...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Guilford, Connecticut :
Lyons Press logo,
[2015]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface / Carla Knorowski
- Introduction: A nation "at risk," Lincoln's world and ours / James M. Cornelius
- Walking with Lincoln / Tom Amandes
- Lincoln and Eureka College / J. David Arnold
- Greater efforts, grander victories / Julian Bond
- The Gettysburg story / Jake Boritt
- A common path taken / John Borling
- On the occasion of the great leaving / Robert Bray
- The dark horse candidate / Edward M. Burke
- The business of words / Ken Burns
- The Gettysburg Address: rewriting America's foundational narrative / William D. Burns
- Truth / President George H.W. Bush
- A powerful reminder / President George W. Bush
- The long march / Amy Carlson
- Gettysburg Address / President Jimmy Carter
- Our struggle was their struggle / Richard Carwardine
- Rebuild together / President Bill Clinton
- One thousand five hundred and seventy days / Catherine Clinton
- On a poem by Lincoln: "My childhood home I see again" / Billy Collins
- Lincoln's world language / James M. Cornelius
- A new nation / Jeremy T. Crandall
- The concept of accountability / Keith David
- Unfinished work / Alan M. Dershowitz
- I am a foreigner / Danian C. Douglas
- Overalls / Richard H. Driehaus
- Our greatest treasure / Tammy Duckworth
- Gettysburg: rebirth of the revolution / Dick Durbin
- A new American anthem / Jason Emerson
- Lincoln in memory and mission / Richard W. Etulain
- The unfinished business of slavery / Nicholas J. Evans
- Will America sacrifice as it did in the Civil War? / Guy C. Fraker
- Gettysburg is not only in Pennsylvania / Nikki Giovanni
- What would Mr. Lincoln think? / Bill Goodman
- Equal opportunity to influence / Ginny Greer
- The ennobling universal passion / Allen C. Guelzo
- Canvassing the vote / Dan Guillory
- The best place on earth / Samuel R. Harris
- Each must enlist / Gary R. Herbert
- Footsteps / Katherine Hitchcock
- Gettysburg calls us to our solemn duty / Jackie Hogan
- Long remembered / Harold Holzer
- Saying much in little / William Howarth
- No greater words / Sally Jewell
- History is a cause / Gary T. Johnson
- Republicanism renewed / Howard Jones
- Words to music / John William Jones
- Clarity of purpose / Kathleen Kennedy
- Lincoln walking at night / Amanda L. Kilpatrick
- "In God we trust" / Carla Knorowski
- Mystery in the history of the Gettysburg Address / Michelle A. Krowl
- Photo essay / Annie Leibovitz
- Four score and seven Lincolns / David H. Leroy
- A look at a people / Caleb Lewis
- I heard Lincoln deliver the Gettysburg Address / Salvador Litvak
- Fallen heroes / James Lovell
- Freedom: given by God, defended by man / Allen J. Lynch
- Conceived in liberty / Phil W. Magness
- A timeless call to action / Suzanne Malveaux
- Immigration to America / John F. Marszalek
- Lincoln's world and Gettysburg / Robert E. May
- 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address / Matthew H. Mead
- Learning from Lincoln / Michael Medved
- Transition in South Africa / Babalwa Mhlauli
- Democracy persists / Richard Lawrence Miller
- Visions of Lincoln: a century on screen / Nell Minow
- More information, less understanding / Newton N. Minow
- Reply / President Barack H. Obama
- Building on Lincoln's legacy / Douglas R. Oberhelman
- Abraham Lincoln and the vital importance of civic education / Sandra Day O'Connor
- Proud disciples / Maureen Orth
- An unfinished masterpiece / Eboo Patel
- The long shadow of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address / Jared Peatman
- In the throes of democracy / Graham A. Peck
- Lincoln in the world / Kevin Peraino
- Remembering a second birth of freedom / Matthew Pinsker
- Fate and circumstance / Adam Pitluk
- The march must continue / Colin L. Powell
- The will of the people / Patrick J. Quinn
- Finishing their work / Grace Richards
- A continuing obligation / J. Joe Ricketts
- 272 words of hope / Karen Roth
- Battlefields for equal justice / Nancy Rousseau
- The promise of greater access / Eric Schmidt
- Hubris in 272 words / Thomas F. Schwartz
- 10 sentences, 4 clauses / Pete Seeger
- Demand the best / Judith Sheindlin
- A time-sensitive document / Scott Simon
- The unfinished work before us / Brooks D. Simpson
- The attractive vision of a better world / Steven Spielberg
- Genealogy apology / Kevin Stein
- The will of the people / Randall L. Stephenson
- The global meaning of the Gettysburg Address / Louise L. Stevenson
- Turn to Lincoln / Charles B. Strozier
- People like to eat / Evelyn Brandt Thomas with Karl Barnhart
- Lincoln's railroad / Robert W. Turner
- The Lincoln seedbed / Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Let's build a civilization based on universal values / Lech Walesa
- Let their lives shine / Scott Walker
- An American keystone / David Walser
- We are the benefactors of change agents / Robin White
- Words that count / Robert S. Willard
- A young girl's advice / Karen B. Winnick.