272 Number of Words That Redefined America

Title: 272 Number of Words That Redefined America
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272 Number of Words That Redefined America

The two hundred seventy-two words of President Lincoln's Gettysburg Address are as significant today as they were six score and seventeen years ago. Garry Wills' "Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America," explicates these two hundred seventy-two words and paints a new picture that gives us the historical context of the President's speech. It was short enough for generations of people to remember, yet at the same time, long enough to have a great …showed first 75 words of 1109 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 1109 total…within the Gettysburg Address. The pivotal argument of Wills writing is that in the Gettysburg Address, President Lincoln turned the attention of the nation of nations, the United States of America, towards its founding document, the Declaration of Independence. The President, with only two hundred seventy-two words, remade America on the most important principle of this sacred document – that all men are created equal. Bibliography Wills, Garry - Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America

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