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LINCOLN'S GREATEST SPEECH?

Frederick Douglass called it 'a sacred effort,' and Lincoln himself thought that his Second Inaugural, which offered a theodicy of the Civil War, was better than the Gettysburg Address.

Topic
History and Biography
Play
in MP3
Author
Wills
Publication
1999 The Atlantic Monthly
Read by
Kathleen Sullivan
Length
50 minutes