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A fully illustrated graphic adaptation that offers a new look at the Gettysburg Address, the bloody battle that prompted it, and the Civil War
Most of us can recall "Four score and seven years ago," but much of what we know about this historic speech, and what it has to say about the Civil War itself, has been lost since we left grade school.
The Gettysburg Address offers a revolutionary way to experience Lincoln's masterwork. Striking at the underlying meaning of Lincoln's words, it uses the Address to tell the whole story of the Civil War. We see how bitter seeds sown by the Founding Fathers sprouted into a bloody war, and ultimately blossomed into the progress and justice of the Civil Rights era. The book depicts pivotal events that led to the upheaval of the secession crisis, the crucial Battle of Gettysburg, and the conflict's still-unfolding legacy with firsthand accounts from Americans from all walks of life: slaves, soldiers, citizens, and, of course, Abraham Lincoln himself—the most transformational president in U.S. history.
Writer Jonathan Hennessey and illustrator Aaron McConnell illuminate history with vibrant, detailed graphics and captions that will give you a fresh understanding of this vital speech, which defined America's most tragic war and marked a new path forward.
- Sales Rank: #452004 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-08-13
- Released on: 2013-08-13
- Format: Kindle eBook
From Booklist
Hennessey deconstructs the phrases composing President Lincoln’s brief memorial speech and uses each one to explore the many complicated cultural and political components of the American Civil War. McConnell’s detailed and highly textured art expands and supports the text by showing the variety of class-based, racial, and historical perspectives creating the mismatched lenses through which Americans view their own history, along with helpful maps and comparative presentations of changed landscapes. Without being didactic or overwhelming, this stellar nonfiction graphic novel shows the challenges of nation building and maintenance in a place and time where technology, economics, and social theory are all undergoing rapid growth and facing considerable resistance. Instead of deifying Lincoln as either an author or an orator, the creators of this work present a thoroughgoing study of the complexity of his brief battlefield speech. A star follow-up to the team’s The United States Constitution: A Graphic Adaptation (2008). --Francisca Goldsmith
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Praise for The United States Constitution: A Graphic Adaptation: "The coolest thing since Schoolhouse Rock."--Rachel Maddow
"A sweet, quick, thoroughgoing history of the U.S. Constitution . . . You'd be hard-pressed to find a better primer for bringing the kids, foreigners and forgetful in your life up to speed."--Cory Doctorow
"Intelligently written, lushly illustrated . . . Hennessey interweaves the Framers' intent with contemporary battles over constitutional law, while McConnell colors history with masterful strokes. A civics lesson no one should miss."--Village Voice (A Best Book of 2008)
"Avoiding the didactic, the book succeeds in being both consistently entertaining and illuminating . . . A fine introduction to U.S. legal history."--Publishers Weekly
"Before Obama is sworn in as the next U.S. president in January, let Hennessey and McConnell's The United States Constitution: A Graphic Adaptation be your refresher course."--Charles Moss, PopMatters
"[A] must-read graphic novel treatment of the history, meaning and evolution of the United States Constitution. It should be a staple of every high school history class."--Jonathan Valania, Phawker
"We the people can now appreciate our nation's founding document unpacked into easy-to-follow explanations enriched with stick-in-your-mind visuals . . . A surprising and effective accomplishment; highly recommended for all collections. Buy multiples for kids, teens, and adults."--School Library Journal (starred review)
"Aaron McConnell's illustrations are brilliant in their effectiveness of depicting complex themes and ideas in discernable ways. The style is reminiscent of the political cartoons of yore and his use of iconography is clever and informative."--Chris Wilson, The Graphic Classroom
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A fully illustrated graphic adaptation that offers a new look at the Gettysburg Address, the bloody battle that prompted it, and the Civil War
Most of us can recall "Four score and seven years ago," but much of what we know about this historic speech, and what it has to say about the Civil War itself, has been lost since we left grade school.
The Gettysburg Address offers a revolutionary way to experience Lincoln's masterwork. Striking at the underlying meaning of Lincoln's words, it uses the Address to tell the whole story of the Civil War. We see how bitter seeds sown by the Founding Fathers sprouted into a bloody war, and ultimately blossomed into the progress and justice of the Civil Rights era. The book depicts pivotal events that led to the upheaval of the secession crisis, the crucial Battle of Gettysburg, and the conflict's still-unfolding legacy with firsthand accounts from Americans from all walks of life: slaves, soldiers, citizens, and, of course, Abraham Lincoln himself—the most transformational president in U.S. history.
Writer Jonathan Hennessey and illustrator Aaron McConnell illuminate history with vibrant, detailed graphics and captions that will give you a fresh understanding of this vital speech, which defined America's most tragic war and marked a new path forward.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
A Well-Illustrated Narrative of the Events Leading To and From Gettysburg
By George P. Wood
At the outset, I should confess that I am not a reader of graphic novels. Indeed, The Gettysburg Address by Jonathan Hennessy (writer) and Aaron McConnell (artist) is the first one I have ever read from cover to cover, let alone with any enjoyment. I am, however, a lover of all things Lincoln, so in the sesquicentennial of his address, I resolved to purchase and read this graphic novel.
A graphic novel has to be reviewed into parts: the substance of the writing and the form of the art. Let me start with the latter. Aaron McConnell has done a superb job illustrating the Jonathan Hennessy's text. As an avid reader of text-only books, I worried that the graphics might get in the way of the text. In fact, they enhanced it. One example, on page 22: Early in the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln appointed general after general to lead the Union armies, each of whom he replaced when they didn't do an adequate job. A text-only approach would spend hundreds of words to explain what McConnell shows in a single picture: four Union generals marching through a revolving door. Brilliant! My only complaint is that in several frames, where Hennessy quotes historical documents, he uses a cursive type script that was hard to read, at least for me. (See Robert E. Lee's letter on page 26, for example.)
That brings me to the substance of Jonathan Hennessy's writing. What Hennessy does is use the words of the Gettysburg Address to organize a historical brief of the historical forces that led to the Civil War, reached critical mass at Gettysburg, and then were channeled into Reconstruction and the Civil Rights Movement. On the whole, this organization works well, resulting in a coherent narrative.
There is much to commend in this narrative. However, I repeatedly choked on Hennessy's simplistic distinction between Lincolnian "big government" and Southern "small government," with its concomitant praise of centralized federal power and its critique of states' rights. There are fewer "big" governments than state governments that legalized slavery, and fewer "small" governments than Lincoln's nuanced attention to the limits of his constitutional powers in the Emancipation Proclamation. Moreover, through much of the nation's history, the federal government--especially the Supreme Court in its Dred Scott and Plessy v. Ferguson decisions--was the engine of oppression, not the liberator from it. Meanwhile, Northern states took the lead in emancipating slaves.
The question of the Civil War, then, is not whether government should be big or small according to some abstract metric, but which government--Federal or state? Executive, legislative, or judicial?--should exercise its powers under the Constitution, and how. The Civil War forever settled the nature of the American union, but it didn't repeal the 10th Amendment. Within their respective frames, the federal and state governments have enumerated constitutional powers that make them "big," as well as constitutional limits that keep them "small."
Despite my philosophical reservations about Hennessy's narrative, I read, enjoyed, and recommend this graphic novel. Prior to The Gettysburg Address, Hennessy and McConnell produced The United States Constitution: A Graphic Adaptation. Given my positive experience with this graphic novel, I look forward to reading that one too.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
An Adaptation You Need to Read
By Robert DeLuca
While there is some confusion over the origin of the concept that "a picture is worth 1,000 words", Jonathon Hennessey's book certainly dramatically embodies the idea. I am a voracious reader and was, frankly, a bit skeptical of the effectiveness of using graphics to convey some fairly subtle and complex historical issues. After reading the book, however, I am amazed how effectively graphics were intertwined with incisive and clever prose to establish moods and tones that would have been very difficult to achieve with words alone. There is a section where a lady is stumbling around the battlefield after the fight looking for her husband among the dead and rotting corpses. She is shown holding a cloth to her nose for obvious reasons. Unfortunately, she finds him. The reader cannot help get caught up in the tragedy, sadness and chill of the moment. An extremely skillful use of graphics has served to convey heavy dose of reality.
The depth of research is truly commendable, and the authors have uncovered numerous, but fascinating, sidebar areas that I found to be intriguing. The comparison of the number of Civil War dead, preponderance of southern presidents, and the evolution of the cemetery are examples. The book made me reflect on deeper issues as well. A Yankee by birth, I had always narrowly viewed the succession from the Union as evil and unjust. Hennessey's comprehensive comparison of the Declaration of Independence vs. the Constitution opened my eyes to a whole different interpretation of that process. In fact, he demonstrates the southern states viewed their actions as very much justified both legally and morally, and, indeed obligated, in the same spirit that we all broke away from the tyranny of England. That idea had never really occurred to me.
If I have any reservation about recommending "The Gettysburg Address", it might be that, while the book is crammed full of interesting factoids, anecdotes, incidents, and ideas, it is perhaps overdone in that respect in parts. The storyline, if one is even applicable in this case, gets a bit obscure and difficult to follow at times. New sections sometimes become brand new stories rather than natural transitions form previous parts. That said, this book is one that you can keep going back to and learn something new virtually every time. Pick out almost any page and become engrossed. On balance, it is an excellent presentation of perhaps the signature event in our nation's history. This one book that you will hang on to, and I am sure will take its place within the cornerstone selections of many personal libraries.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Spectacular and Deep
By checkers
This is not your standard fair for Graphic Novels. I already utilize the author's "U.S. Constitution" graphic novel in my high school classes and it is seriously perfect for kids. THIS book, however, is deeper philosophically and ideologically about so much more than the Gettysburg Address. I like that the book is not filled with U.S. Civil War battle scenes or general profiles, but about much more compelling and deeper American issues. As a U.S. History teacher I would classify this as a 'must-read', though everyone might not feel the same. I'm particularly using the segment about States' Rights vs. Federal Rights in my classroom.
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