Jared Peatman is a leadership development consultant and the director of curriculum for the Lincoln Leadership Institute at Gettysburg.
"Its words are magnificent in their brevity and their meaning. Yet,
until the appearance of Jared Peatman's book, no one had shown as
clearly as he does the long-term effect of Lincoln's Gettysburg
Address on friend and foe alike. Must reading for all
Americans."--John F. Marszalek, executive director and managing
editor, Ulysses S. Grant Association "After 150 years Lincoln's
words at Gettysburg still live with meaning. Any time Americans
face crisis and sacrifice, that immortal few minutes' talk
reappears to comfort and inspire. Jared Peatman's wonderfully
researched and ably presented book is the first in more than a
generation to examine thoroughly the events of November 19, 1863,
the public response to the address, and what it has meant to the
world ever since. The Long Shadow of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
goes a long way toward explaining why we cannot escape its power,
and why we wouldn't escape it if we could. Like Lincoln, it belongs
to the ages."--William C. Davis, director, Virginia Center for
Civil War Studies, Virginia Tech "Who owns the immortal words that
Abraham Lincoln delivered at the soldiers' cemetery overlooking
Gettysburg? This question animates Jared Peatman's immensely
important The Long Shadow of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. From the
moment the president stepped away from the speaker's platform on
November 19, 1863, his 'brief remarks' unleashed fierce
disagreements throughout the country. This contentious debate, as
the author argues, quickly turned into a global conversation about
issues of human freedom and the meaning of citizenship that
continues to this day. Peatman's powerful book reminds us that for
every student who memorizes the Gettysburg Address, he or she will
likely reach very different conclusions as to what Lincoln meant by
a 'new birth of freedom.'"--Peter S. Carmichael, Fluhrer Professor
of History and director of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg
College "The Long Shadow of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address is an
excellent and welcome addition to public and college library
American History shelves."--The Midwest Book Review
"Jared Peatman . . . explore[s] anew Abraham Lincoln's most famous
speech and its . . . legacies, the most important of which . . .
was Lincoln's emphasis on equality. . . . Peatman is concerned with
what the address meant (both for Americans and for people overseas)
in the years 1901-1922, during World War II, and in the Cold War.
[The book] demonstrate[s] how arguments about the Gettysburg
Address and its egalitarian ideals remain with us." --The Journal
of Southern History "In Jared Peatman's The Long Shadow of
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, the author provides a fascinating
account of how Lincoln's most famous speech has been remembered,
forgotten, and remembered again during key moments of America's
history since 1863...Peatman, the director of curriculum for the
Lincoln Leadership Institute at Gettysburg, has produced a highly
readable account of the speech's place in American and
international discourse."-Tom Pace, John Carrol University
"Peatman's book offers a refreshing view of the historical
trajectory of the Gettysburg Address from a quiet, short speech at
a cemetery dedication into a quintessential document of American
identity. Arguing that the speech did not become a revered
historical document for Americans until after World War II, Peatman
rejects Gary Wills's interpretation that Lincoln's speech remade
America in the 1860s, and he tempers Gabor Borritt's assertion that
the document became important in America following the end of
Reconstruction."--Stacy Pratt McDermott, The Papers of Abraham
Lincoln Peatman (Lincoln Leadership Institute, Gettysburg)
intelligently traces the reception accorded the address delivered
on November 19, 1863, regarding that summer's butchery on the
battlefield. Initially many commentators--not only in the
south--ignored or dismissed Abraham Lincoln's oration. Most failed
to acknowledge the centrality of equality that opened the
Gettysburg Address, as well as the subsequent pronouncement that
the US awaited "a new birth of freedom." Failing to underscore
Lincoln's exhortation for an enlargement of democracy and an
ushering in of equality, some writers dismissed the president as
ignorant, coarse, or fearful altogether. Two to three generations
later, Lincoln's speech began garnering more acclaim, with greater
recognition that the president had been committed to both equality
and democracy. Most, however, emphasized Lincoln's lyricism or
championing of democratic practices, while Southern textbooks
skipped over the speech entirely. WWI resulted in greater attention
being accorded Lincoln's own words, helping lead to the dedication
of the Lincoln Memorial in 1922, which contained the Kennedy era
that its egalitarian aspects were frequently highlighted. Summing
up: Highly recommended. Most levels/libraries--R.C. Cottrell,
California State University, Chico
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