Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America by Garry Wills
This book was recommended by good friend from San Francisco Rory Dowd, a U.S. History expert and junior high school teacher who is able to talk about history and the American culture as through Lincoln as much as Archie Bunker.
I was especially drawn to this book because of the current trend of comparing our current well-read president-elect to our last well-read president. Working in a bookstore, I am acutely aware of the number of books on Lincoln. With his 200th birthday this year and the flock of people who aim to learn about Obama from Lincoln, I spend much of my day with the hundreds of books we carry about Lincoln. This was the perfect book, for me, to be my first book on Lincoln.
I have never much agreed with the Civil War, or the Lincoln Presidency. (more…)
