Lincoln at Gettysburg

One of my favorite books in my civil war library is Gary Will's "Lincoln at Gettysburg". I have read this Pulitzer prize winning book multiple times. I have it on audio so I listen to it almost every year at least once. I like Will's analysis of Lincoln's style, rhetorical devices, and historical background that Lincoln uses in his dedicatory remarks at the Gettysburg cemetery. It is fascinating to see Lincoln's incorporation of the transcendental philosophies of the day as well as the funerary devices he employs. The Speech is incredible in its grammatical structure and with the rhetorical elements meshed all into just 280 odd words. As I am exhausted from my teaching endeavors, I will write more on this on another day.