附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-315) and index.
NOVEMBER; NOVEMBER 1: Years Ago (All Saints); NOVEMBER 2: Our Fathers (L.L.); NOVEMBER 3: Brought Forth (Pen and Sword); NOVEMBER 4: In Vain (Lycidas); NOVEMBER 5: The Living and the Dead (Character); NOVEMBER 9: Never Forget (Nights of Broken Glass); NOVEMBER 11: Long Endure (Armistice Day); NOVEMBER 14: The Brave Men (Ia Drang); NOVEMBER 15: A Great Civil War (Virginia Wade); NOVEMBER 16: Final Resting Place (Sanctuary); NOVEMBER 17: What We Say Here (The Other Address); NOVEMBER 18: We Have Come to Dedicate (The Visitor); NOVEMBER 19: The Gettysburg Address.
摘要:It begins with the search for hallowed ground, the exact place from which Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address. In bleak November, Kent Gramm makes a pilgrimage to the most famous battleground in American history and over the course of a month transforms his search into a discovery of the meaning of Lincoln's elegy for America's identity. For Gramm, the century that began with Lincoln's address and ended with the assassinations of the 1960s saw the destruction of the 'modern' world and with it.
