Article: Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Re-Made America.(Brief Article)

The official orator at Gettysburg was Edward Everett, President of Harvard and America's most distinguished Hellenic scholar. He spoke for two hours, though without a text, a 58-paragraph survey not only of the War but of episodes drawn from Greek -- and French Revolutionary -- history. This was then the expected and familiar funerary fashion. Lincoln spoke for three minutes, in a bare plain prose, rich in its biblical cadence, and strongly ...

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