Lincoln at Gettysburg (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Garry Wills
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Work: Intellectual history
- Time of Work: 1863
- Setting: Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
- Principal Characters: Abraham Lincoln, Edward Everett, John Hay, George Bancroft, Theodore Parker
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: Abolitionists, Nineteenth century, Political science, Nationalism, Equality, Democracy, Speeches, Presidents, Transcendentalism, Orators or orations
- Locales: Gettysburg, PA
Although Garry Wills labels himself a conservative, he espouses positions that make some conservatives consider him a maverick, if not an outright liberal. He once supported unilateral reductions of nuclear weapons, saying that nothing is more conservative than conserving the world. Fond of quoting St. Augustine, Walter Bagehot, and John Henry Newman, he reminds one of what the nineteenth century called a political philosopher, though his academic training centered on the classics and for a number of years he taught Greek. Like a philosopher, he has a fondness for coining terms, derived...
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