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Johnson (history, Miami Univ.; The Dreyfus Affair) brings his remarkable sleuthing skills to a forensic examination of "who wrote the Gettysburg Address." The question (not simply rhetorical) is problematic, for the mythology enveloping the writing of the famous speech has so obscured the facts as to make it seem that the speech sprang from Abraham Lincoln's head fully created. Here, Johnson deftly reconstructs the chronology of Lincoln's thought, the drafting of the speech over sev...Log In or Sign Up to Read More