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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

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"Eighty-seven (four score and seven) human interest stories show men and women in the grip of danger, sacrifice, and strong emotion. The living and dead are Confederates and Yankees, soldiers and civilians, male and female, young and old. The photographs convey the essential reality of the battlefield--"a terrible beauty"--

Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863.