Perhaps the greatest speech in American history--certainly the best-known--is beautifully typeset; designed and augmented in this slim; affordable volume. Though only 272 words and three minutes in duration when read aloud; Lincoln's legendary speech still resonates as one of the world's great statements of freedom; democracy and human equality; and has long been a cornerstone in the political discourse of tolerance. In this book; the text of the speech is featured alongside Abraham Byers' ambrotype portrait of Abraham Lincoln (1858) and the Gettysburg battlefield glass negative photograph "Harvest of Death" by Timothy H. O'Sullivan; then a 23-year-old field photographer working for the printer Alexander Gardner. Beautifully printed with French folds; this publication includes a letterpress front plate and a colophon insert held in a glassine sleeve. This elegant and simple keepsake will not only revive and repackage one of the most important speeches in American history; but it will also help elucidate the context and unwrap the importance of President Lincoln's words. The book is published just prior to the television premiere of The Address; the long-planned Ken Burns PBS documentary centered on the Greenwood School of Putney; Vermont; where students are encouraged to memorize and recite the Gettysburg Address--a goal that Burns and PBS have challenged Americans; and particularly students; to undertake.
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