What most educated people in England know of it, perhaps, is that it was a speech of noble eloquence over the dead who fell in the decisive battle of the Civil War, and that it ends with the hope that 'government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth'. His subject is that most hackneyed of texts, President Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. He has gone on to show how much of what we thought we knew happens not to be quite so, and that in an important sense we have missed the main point altogether. Garry Wills has taken a subject about which everyone, at least in the United States, thinks they know all that is to be known.
THIS IS, there is no other way to say it, a stunning book.
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