The Gettysburg Address cover art

The Gettysburg Address

Perspectives on Lincoln's Greatest Speech

Preview
Try Standard free
Select 1 audiobook a month from our entire collection.
Listen to your selected audiobooks as long as you're a member.
Get unlimited access to bingeable podcasts.
Auto-renews at $8.99/mo after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

The Gettysburg Address

By: Sean Conant - editor
Narrated by: Dermot Mulroney, Edoardo Ballerini, David Pittu, Stephen Lang, Graeme Malcolm, Suzanne Toren, John Keating, Jonathan Davis, Neal McDonough, Jennifer Van Dyck, Tavia Gilbert, Robin Miles, Peter Ganim, Ellen Archer, Zachary Gordon
Try Standard free

Auto-renews at $8.99/mo after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Buy Now for $39.99

Buy Now for $39.99

About this listen

It remains without question the most memorable and memorized speech in American history. On November 19, 1863, in 272 words delivered among the freshly dug graves of Union dead upon the country's bloodiest battlefield, Abraham Lincoln redefined American liberty and forever altered the course of the nation.

This volume aims to place the Gettysburg Address in its full context, examining both its influences and impacts, and approaching it from a number of modern perspectives. Never before in one anthology has Lincoln's immortal address been viewed through such far-reaching lenses as emancipation, women's rights, immigrant rights, LGBT rights, and more. The scholarship included in this audiobook is new and exciting, with each of its 15 essays providing further meditation on major themes in the evolution of freedom and equality in America.

Edited by filmmaker Sean Conant and with contributions from some of the country's leading scholars including Sean Wilentz, Craig L. Symonds, and Harold Holzer, this volume explores how in the century and a half since it was delivered, the Gettysburg Address has proven a seemingly inexhaustible source of somber reflection and soaring hope, and why its language continues to resonate with so many people seeking meaning for their own struggles and sacrifices.
Career Success Freedom & Security Military Politics & Government Public Speaking Words, Language & Grammar
No reviews yet
In the spirit of reconciliation, Audible acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.