The Gettysburg Address Paperback - 1998
by Abraham Lincoln; Michael McCurdy (Illustrator)
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Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Abraham Lincoln
November 19, 1863
Despite widely-circulated stories to the contrary, the president did not dash off a copy aboard a train to Gettysburg. There are five known copies of the speech in Lincoln's handwriting, each with a slightly different text, and named for the people who first received them: Nicolay, Hay, Everett, Bancroft, and Bliss. Two copies apparently were written before delivering the speech, one of which probably was the reading copy. The remaining ones were produced months later for soldier benefit events.
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Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
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- Title The Gettysburg Address
- Author Abraham Lincoln; Michael McCurdy (Illustrator)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 32
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Clarion Books
- Date February 2, 1998
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780395883976 / 0395883970
- Weight 0.36 lbs (0.16 kg)
- Dimensions 11.5 x 9.31 x 0.14 in (29.21 x 23.65 x 0.36 cm)
- Ages 04 to 07 years
- Grade levels P - 2
- Reading level 1420
- Dewey Decimal Code 815.010
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