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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... lost as the reality of the past has been ques- tioned . It had to be , for we lost the world in our modern self - absorption ; it had become meaningless and absurd . But what will happen now ? What paradise will be regained , and what lost ...
... lost it . Lieutenant Owen is the Modern World at war with it- self . That civil war is our civil war ; his loss is ... lost 19,000 killed . By the time the Somme fighting ended on November 18 , the Germans , French , and British had lost ...
... lost when he lost . All along , he tried to model himself on a great hero , George Washington , and the extent of his success makes Robert E. Lee a hero to us - to the degree that we ignore the origin of his cause . He succeeded ...
Contents
Brought Forth Pen and Sword | 30 |
NOVEMBER 4 | 41 |
NOVEMBER 5 | 63 |
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