Abraham Lincoln\'s Gettysburg Address is familiar to all Americans.
The address itself is played out over eighteen pages, with every phrase given a visual interpretation that will resonate with young readers..
Butzer uses only primary sources for the text, drawing from first-person letters and diaries, speeches, and Lincoln\'s own writing to unpack this series of historical events.
Butzer deftly uses a detailed, comic-book style to depict the Battle of Gettysburg; the national movement to create a memorial there; and the quiet day in 1863 when Lincoln delivered his galvanizing speech.
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Graphic artist and Civil War aficionado C.
But never has his most famous speech--his 271 indelible words--been presented in such a visual and accessible format.
Abraham Lincoln\'s Gettysburg Address is familiar to all Americans
