Acclaimed Lincoln scholar Gabor Boritt re-creates the events surrounding President Lincoln's famous Gettysburg Address and shows how the remarks that were quickly forgotten took on a new life decades later and became the most famous speech in American history.
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The Gettysburg Gospel
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Gabor Boritt
Gabor Boritt is the Robert Fluhrer Professor of Civil War Studies and Director of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College. Born in World War II Hungary, he participated as a teenager in the 1956 revolution against the Soviet Union. He escaped to the United States, where he received his higher education and became one of the finest Lincoln scholars. His life story is soon to be the subject of a feature-length documentary film. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of sixteen books about Lincoln and the Civil War. Boritt and his wife live on a farm near the Gettysburg battlefield, where they have raised their three sons.
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