We're ringing in the 250th anniversary of the United States with an episode on Garry Wills's superb, Pulitzer Prize-winning 1992 book, <a href="https://books.google.com/books/about/Lincoln_at_Gettysburg.html?id=7-aynIQRkYcC" rel="noopener noreferrer">Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade the America</a>. It's central argument is that Abraham Lincoln succeeded in revolutionizing how Americans thought of the founding of their country, especially the Declaration of Independence, with the Gettysburg Address—a revolution not just in "thought" but in "style," one that placed the Declaration's assertion of equality at the very center of our political tradition. The book is one that only Garry Wills could have written, with his PhD in Classics allowing him to compare Lincoln's "funeral oration" to that of Pericles, with his long meditation on the American presidency and leadership preparing him to grasp the enormity of the task Lincoln set himself, and with his time at National Review in his youth helping him understand why the American right never forgave Lincoln for succeeding. We discuss all this and more in our conversation about one of our favorite writer's very best books.
Tickets for Sam's events: <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tad-devine-presents-how-the-democrats-screwed-bernie-with-sam-adler-bell-tickets-1992021599227?aff=oddtdtcreator" rel="noopener noreferrer">Tuesday with Tad Devine</a> / <a href="https://secure.actblue.com/donate/david-dan-nyc" rel="noopener noreferrer">Thursday with Dan Denvir</a>. 
Previous KYE episodes on Garry Wills:
<a href="https://know-your-enemy-1682b684.simplecast.com/episodes/nixon-agonistes-nnJ_Z2Dk" rel="noopener noreferrer">Nixon Agonistes</a>
<a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/the-kennedy-imprisonment-w-jeet-heer/id1462703434?i=1000635226404" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Kennedy Imprisonment</a> (w/ Jeet Heer)
<a href="https://know-your-enemy-1682b684.simplecast.com/episodes/bomb-power-w-erik-baker-Vu_rvHZg" rel="noopener noreferrer">Bomb Power</a> (w/ Madeleine Baker)
Sources:
Garry Wills, <a href="https://books.google.com/books/about/Lincoln_at_Gettysburg.html?id=7-aynIQRkYcC" rel="noopener noreferrer">Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America</a> (1992)
— <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/298677/bomb-power-by-garry-wills/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State</a> (2010)
— "<a href="https://classic.esquire.com/article/1968/8/1/martin-luther-king-is-still-on-the-case" rel="noopener noreferrer">Martin Luther King Is Still on the Case!</a>" Esquire, Aug 1, 1968
— "The Blind Teach Us to See," Boston Globe, Aug 20, 1970
Abraham Lincoln, "<a href="https://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/speed.htm" rel="noopener noreferrer">Letter to Joshua Speed</a>," Aug 24, 1855
Harry V. Jaffa, <a href="https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo6950926.html" rel="noopener noreferrer">Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates</a> (1959)
Russell Kirk, <a href="https://www.regnery.com/9781882926992/the-roots-of-american-order/" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Roots of American Order</a> (1974)
Willmoore Kendall and George W. Carey, <a href="https://www.cuapress.org/9780813208268/the-basic-symbols-of-the-american-political-tradition/" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Basic Symbols of the American Political Tradition</a> (1970)
...and don't forget to subscribe to <a href="https://www.patreon.com/knowyourenemy" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Know Your Enemy on Patreon</a> for access to all of our bonus episodes!

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