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Gettysburg C. M. Butzer, C. M. Butzer (Illustrator)
Hardcover
Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address is familiar to all Americans. But never has his most famous speechÑhis 271 indelible wordsÑbeen presented in such a visual and accessible format.
Graphic artist and Civil War aficionado C. M. Butzer deftly uses a detailed, comic-book style to depict the Battle of Gettysburg; the national movement to create a memorial there; and the quiet day in 1863 when Lincoln delivered his galvanizing speech. Butzer uses only primary sources for the text, drawing from first-person letters and diaries, speeches, and Lincoln's own writing to unpack this series of historical events. The address itself is played out over eighteen pages, with every phrase given a visual interpretation that will resonate with young readers.
