November: Lincoln's Elegy at GettysburgIndiana University Press, 2001-11-09 - 344 psl. It 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. "The month begins with things that perish. But ultimately, November is a journey of hope, as was Lincoln's journey to Gettysburg. So too I will journey to Gettysburg in these pages. Like Lincoln's fellow citizens, I go there to assuage personal grief, to find answers; and I hope, for me as for them, that my personal sorrows become a vehicle for larger answers and a larger purpose. Lincoln addressed their grief, why not mine; he gave his generation purpose, why not ours." |
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... human error , fate , chance , or the will of God . " Life is unfair , " John F. Kennedy would say years later , himself a victim of a shipwreck , though luckier . The young Kennedy knew how to swim , but Edward King and most passengers ...
... human progress : things would get better ; invention would thrive , the politics of nations like England would reject royal despo- tism and legislatures would govern , learning and art would increase to the benefit of humankind . Even ...
... synagogues in a massive " chastisement " of the Jews . It is the unmistakable prelude to the Holocaust . Where is God ? Where is Reason ? Where is Humanity ? November 1963 The last genuinely modernist president — a handsome [ 4 ] NOVEMBER.
... human effort " under God , " who ordains , blesses , and aids what- ever we do justly and according to what John Milton called Right Reason . But 1960s America had entered the postmodern world — and , characteris- tically for ...
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Brought Forth Pen and Sword | 30 |
NOVEMBER 4 | 41 |
NOVEMBER 5 | 63 |
NOVEMBER 9 | 73 |
NOVEMBER 14 | 84 |
NOVEMBER 15 | 96 |
NOVEMBER 16 | 106 |
NOVEMBER 22 | 182 |
NOVEMBER 23 | 193 |
NOVEMBER 25 | 213 |
NOVEMBER 26 | 228 |
NOVEMBER 27 | 251 |
NOVEMBER 29 | 266 |
NOVEMBER 30 | 273 |
Modernism and Postmodernism | 285 |
NOVEMBER 17 | 119 |
The Gettysburg Address | 131 |
NOVEMBER 20 | 162 |
NOVEMBER 21 | 171 |
Elegy Written in a Country ChurchYard | 298 |
Notes on the Sources | 305 |