| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.4

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Gabor Boritt. The Gettysburg Gospel: The Lincoln Speech that Nobody Knows. New York: Simon and Schuster. 2006. Pp. ix, 415. $25.00.

The title of this latest volume from the very productive pen of Gabor Boritt will come, as is intended, as a surprise both to the American public and to American historians, most of whom, it may safely be surmised, know the Gettysburg Address very well indeed, or think they do. That, of course, is the point. A subtitle along the lines of "the Lincoln speech you assumed you knew but in fact you don't know it as well as you thought you did" would have proved somewhat unwieldy; but that, in essence, is the thrust of this study and its contribution to Lincoln scholarship generally and to that on the Gettysburg Address specifically.

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