December 4, 2006
Gabor's "The Gettysburg Gospel" Makes New York Times

Gabor Boritt?s The Gettysburg Gospel: The Lincoln Speech That Nobody Knows makes The New York Times Book Review section.
Plowing Hallowed Ground: The Address, Word by Word
The main text of Gabor Boritt?s new Lincoln book concludes on Page 206. So more than half of this 415-page volume is devoted to appendices, acknowledgments, bibliography, index and so on. That might be regarded as padding if Professor Boritt?s obsession with his subject matter were not so unwavering.
He has written or edited more than a dozen books about the Civil War and is the director of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College. He lives on an exquisitely situated Gettysburg farm near Cemetery Ridge and about a mile from the site of Pickett?s Charge. ?The Gettysburg Gospel? includes a picture of the farm too.
With all the coverage that Gabor is getting on this book and the fact that Lincoln books make bug sellers, I wouldn't be surprised if The Gettysburg Gospel doesn't break the top 10 bestseller list soon.
Filed under Abraham Lincoln, Civil War Books, Gettysburg by Mike Koepke
































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