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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... later , himself a victim of a shipwreck , though luckier . The young Kennedy knew how to swim , but Edward King and most passengers and sailors in 1637 did not . Nev- ertheless , some of the crew saved themselves by diving into the ...
... later , Ruth taught her son the Gettysburg Address . Between my halting recitations and slovenly pronunciations ( " Do not pronounce ' new ' as though it were a bearded quadruped " ) , she recalled her town's Civil War veterans standing ...
... later , by the time of John F. Ken- nedy's assassination in November 1963 , that world was clearly gone . De- spite their differences , the 1860s and 1960s were mirror decades : both times of civil war , of passions and politics and [ 9 ] ...
... later , it did not properly belong to the Civil War era . The Civil War has been called the first modern war , but it was actually the last modern war . Trench warfare , submarine warfare , and war against civilians — not to mention ...
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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 |