November: Lincoln's Elegy at GettysburgIt 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. |
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... kind of person of whose elevation one was always conscious . Here , on the Virginia Monu- ment , Lee rides the clouds , his lion - like , finely sculpted head against the eternal sky . He is a kind of father alike to us who look up at ...
... kind of prayer , to be read by a man who apparently had little to do with prayer . ( His wife said during the campaign that it was unfair for him to be criticized on account of his Catholicism since he was such a poor Catholic . ) There ...
... kind on their reverse sides . I relied on memory to identify images I had not seen in thirty or forty years . Out of these I imagined her life . A narrative only seems to be continuous . The best short story or novel or historical ...
Contents
Brought Forth Pen and Sword | 30 |
NOVEMBER 4 | 41 |
NOVEMBER 5 | 63 |
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