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Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address Illustrated (2010)

by Jack E. Levin(Favorite Author)

4.32 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1439188963 (ISBN13: 9781439188965)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Threshold Editions

review 1: It's the freaking Gettysburg Address. How can you not give it 5 stars? I could go for a shorter introduction by the author though. I don't really care about your dad, guy. Get to the Lincoln talky bits.Here are a few more thoughts. It has pictures, so that's cool. Off the top of my head, I would list the Gettysburg Address as a top 5 speech ever given.Other than the GA (that's what I call it), there was the best man speech I gave at my friend's wedding, the impromptu speech in 9th grade English on my favorite movie (Tommy Boy), and of course my lovely speech in 7th grade when I demonstrated how to properly make an Ice Cream Sundae. That speech even included some ad libbing to account for the difficulty I had getting the ice cream out of the tub. I ended up cutting the cont... moreainer from seam to seam in a glorious dairy evisceration that surely wowed and amazed. Needless to say, the crowd was left stunned and eventually sated.I aim to please.
review 2: In large lettering, this book reprints Lincoln's most famous speech, overlaying the text upon actual photographs of Civil War battlefields, paintings of the Founding Fathers, maps, period drawings of battles, and period newspaper clippings. The original speech, in Lincoln's own writing, is reprinted at the end of the book.Some will complain you can find the Gettysburg Address all over the Internet for free. But there's little doubt most kids (and adults) learn better when they have visual images to go along with text. Perhaps such resources are available online, but I'd always rather have a book. This volume, with it's mostly large type and full page period illustrations, is a good way to learn about one of the most important speeches ever made in the United States. Some of the illustrations are quite moving - authentic photos of the dead on the battlefield, for example, and men in uniform going about the daily business of the Civil War.The speech is still relevant today, too, as Lincoln reminds us our country was founded upon God and liberty, and that Americans, above all people, should strive to protect the union and each other or risk having "this government of the people, by the people, for the people...perish[ing:] from the earth."The only down side to this book is that it's entirely black and white. True enough, most of the original sources for illustrations are black and white, but some are in color (a painting of the founders, and a flag background, for example). Although it's nice to have an exact reprint of this 1960s book, some added color would have been an excellent addition. less

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