November: Lincoln's Elegy at GettysburgIndiana University Press, 9. nov. 2001 - 344 sider It begins with the search for hallowed ground, the exact place from which Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address. In bleak November, Kent Gramm makes a pilgrimage to the most famous battleground in American history and over the course of a month transforms his search into a discovery of the meaning of Lincoln's elegy for America's identity. "The month begins with things that perish. But ultimately, November is a journey of hope, as was Lincoln's journey to Gettysburg. So too I will journey to Gettysburg in these pages. Like Lincoln's fellow citizens, I go there to assuage personal grief, to find answers; and I hope, for me as for them, that my personal sorrows become a vehicle for larger answers and a larger purpose. Lincoln addressed their grief, why not mine; he gave his generation purpose, why not ours." |
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... at Gettysburg Kent Gramm. When a civilization is in crisis , to preserve is to create . -Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis I know who I am , and who I may be if I choose . -Cervantes Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth.
... Kennedy would say years later , himself a victim of a shipwreck , though luckier . The young Kennedy knew how to swim , but Edward King and most passengers and sailors in 1637 did not . Nev- ertheless , some of the crew saved themselves ...
... Kennedy's assassination on tape , and can replay it in color , the spraying red of his blood enough to make anyone with feelings wonder what it all means , and perhaps even ask , " Where was God ? " Where indeed . Kennedy had just ...
... Kennedy said on a clear , cold day in 1961 , taking the oath of office as president of the United States . The rest of that decade would demonstrate the difference . How eras respond to trag- edy shows what those eras are made of , and ...
... Kennedy Onassis , like Mary Todd Lincoln one of the most underestimated persons of her time , said , " if we don't care about our past , we can't have very much hope for the future . " Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy seemed to be a living elegy ...
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Brought Forth Pen and Sword | 30 |
NOVEMBER 4 | 41 |
NOVEMBER 5 | 63 |
NOVEMBER 9 | 73 |
NOVEMBER 14 | 84 |
NOVEMBER 15 | 96 |
NOVEMBER 16 | 106 |
NOVEMBER 22 | 182 |
NOVEMBER 23 | 193 |
NOVEMBER 25 | 213 |
NOVEMBER 26 | 228 |
NOVEMBER 27 | 251 |
NOVEMBER 29 | 266 |
NOVEMBER 30 | 273 |
Modernism and Postmodernism | 285 |
NOVEMBER 17 | 119 |
The Gettysburg Address | 131 |
NOVEMBER 20 | 162 |
NOVEMBER 21 | 171 |
Elegy Written in a Country ChurchYard | 298 |
Notes on the Sources | 305 |