Bøker av Jack E. Levin

Jack E. Levin, #1 New York Times bestselling author of George Washington: The Crossing, presents a beautifully designed chroniclecomplete with maps, portraits, and other Civil War illustrationsdetailing President Abraham Lincolns historic Second Inaugural Address.As humble and faithful as the president who delivered it, Lincolns landmark Second Inaugural Address still resonates today. The speech was an attempt to unite a fractured people in a time when our nation was at its most divided, nearing the end of the Civil War. As you navigate this beautiful book, youll start to understand the significance and poetic power of this speech while you come closer to the man behind it.As an added bonus, Jack Levins son, #1 New York Times bestselling author Mark Levin, has written an illuminating preface about the importance of Lincolns speech and its lasting impact on history. Filled with historic paintings and illustrations from the period, this book is a dramatic rendering of a momentous American occasion.

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. Levins 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 Lincolns 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 Lincolns awe-inspiring response to one of the Civil Wars costliest conflicts. Now Jack Levins 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 Lincolns Gettysburg Address Illustrated celebrates the passing of patriotic pride and historical insight from generation to generation, from father to son. *** The day following the dedication of the National Soldiers 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.