Edward Achorn
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition, First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"By March 4, 1865, the Civil War had slaughtered more than 700,000 Americans and left intractable wounds on the nation. That day, after a morning of rain-drenched fury, tens of thousands crowded Washington's Capitol grounds to see Abraham Lincoln take theoath for a second term. As the sun emerged, Lincoln rose to give perhaps the greatest inaugural address in American history, stunning the nation by arguing, in a brief 701 words, that both sides had...