Chapters: Background for oratory -- Freedom motif -- Independence Day -- Soldiers' National Cemetery -- Invitations extended -- Composing the address -- Incidents en route -- Informal preliminaries -- Solemn procession -- Dedicatory program -- Orator of the day -- Appropriate remarks -- Presentation notes -- Dedication aftermath -- Press reaction -- Preliminary holographs -- Subsequent holographs -- Increasing respect -- In memoriam -- Appendix: Edward Everett's oration
Summary
"The author has separated rumor and myth from actuality. Here for the first time, in a single work, is the accurate account of the origin and delivery of his masterpiece." [from Amazon.com]
x, 390 p. illus., facsim., map (on lining papers) ports. 25 cm.
Series
[His George Washington, v. 1]
Notes
"Source references": p. 361-377.
Summary
This is the first of 4 volumes by this author on the life of Washington. It deals with his life from birth until the beginning of the Revolutionary War.
