Reddit reviews Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America

Read Gary Wills' Lincoln At Gettysburg, one of the best non-fiction books I have ever read. Wills claims, and supports, that Lincoln successfully set out to re-formulate the relationship between the American people and our government. If nothing else, it is a great example of how to really read a text.

Just read an awesome book called Lincoln at Gettysburg that outlines a lot of the political and cultural motivations that went into the Gettysburg Address. It also covers a lot about how Lincoln felt about the war at the time, and the language he used to describe it. Also check out The New York City Draft Riots. This book, in addition to telling a really interesting story about what happened those few days in New York in 1863, it also provides an interesting perspective of what Bernstein calls "The Lincoln Regime", and the centralization of federal Republican power during that time.