Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade AmericaModern · History, Nonfiction, Civil War
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America
1992 · 320 pages · Nonfiction
60
Modern
★ 4.16 on Goodreads · 9K ratings
≈ 8 hours to read · about 2 weeks at 30 minutes a day
Is it worth reading?
Pulitzer Prize (General Nonfiction) winner (1993). 4.16★ from 9K Goodreads ratings.
By the numbers
60Must-Read Score
- Critics74 out of 100 · counts 35%+29
- Readers53 out of 100 · counts 50%+31
- Buzz0 out of 100 · counts 15%+0
Buzz rewards prizes and lists from the last few years, so older books start at zero.
Where it ranks
- #70 of the 220 history books we rank
- #97 of the 318 modern books we rank
- #271 of the 1,344 books we rank
Won
- Pulitzer Prize (General Nonfiction) winner (1993)
Shortlisted
- Pulitzer Prize (History) finalist (1993)
- National Book Award (Nonfiction) finalist (1992)
Reads as
True story
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