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    Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address Illustrated
    Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address Illustrated
    Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address Illustrated
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    Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address Illustrated

    By Jack E. Levin and Mark R. Levin

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    “Fourscore 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.    ”

     

    Long before his conservative manifesto Liberty and Tyranny became a #1 New York Times bestseller, Mark R. Levin’s love for his country was instilled in him by his father, Jack E. Levin. At family dinners, Jack would share his bountiful knowledge of American history and, especially, the inspiration of Abraham Lincoln.

     

    The son of immigrants, Jack Levin is an American patriot who responded with deep personal emotion
    to Lincoln’s call for liberty and equality. His admiration for the great Civil War president inspired
    him to personally design and produce a beautiful volume, enhanced with period illustrations and
    striking battlefield images by Matthew Brady and other renowned photographers of the era, that
    brings to life the words of Lincoln’s awe-inspiring response to one of the Civil War’s costliest conflicts.

     

    Now Jack Levin’s loving homage to the spirit of American freedom is available in an essential edition
    that features his original foreword as well as a touching new preface by his son, Mark Levin. In
    this way, Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address Illustrated celebrates the passing of patriotic
    pride and historical insight from generation to generation, from father to son.

     

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    The day following the dedication of the National Soldier’s Cemetery at Gettysburg, Edward Everett, who spoke before Lincoln, sent him a note saying: “Permit me to express my great admiration for the thoughts expressed by you, with such eloquent simplicity and appropriateness, at the consecration of the cemetery. I should be glad, if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes.”

     

    Lincoln wrote back to Everett: “In our respective parts yesterday, you could not have
    been excused to make a short address, nor I a long one. I am pleased to know that in
    your judgement the little I did say was not entirely a failure.”
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThreshold Editions
    Release dateNov 27, 2012
    ISBN9781439189009
    Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address Illustrated
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    Jack E. Levin

    Jack E. Levin (1925–2018) was the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Malice Toward None; George Washington: The Crossing; Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address Illustrated; Proverbs for Young People; and Our Police. He was an author, artist, and small businessman, and was married to his wife, Norma, for sixty years.  

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      Phenomenal. This simple book should absolutely be used to teach the Gettysburg Address in school. Simply beautiful.
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      A very well done illustration of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.

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    Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address Illustrated - Jack E. Levin

    Contents

    Preface: My Father and the Gettysburg Address

    Foreword

    The Gettysburg Address

    Picture Credits

    About Jack E. Levin and Mark R. Levin

    Dedicated to my wife, Norma, and our family, and to all the patriots who love our country

    Preface

    My Father and the Gettysburg Address

    On July 4, 1937, my father, Jack, then twelve years old, and a neighborhood buddy walked several miles from their homes to the parade route where the city of Philadelphia was celebrating our nation’s founding. The route stretched from Center City Philadelphia, not far from Independence Hall, to the Philadelphia Art Museum, which Sylvester Stallone would make famous in his Rocky movies nearly forty years later. One of the dignitaries in the parade caught my father’s attention—a Civil War veteran. He sat on the back of a four-door convertible dressed in his old Union uniform, including his campaign hat. Behind him marched a small group of Spanish-American War veterans. But of all the soldiers, veterans, and marching bands my father saw that

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