Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address Illustrated » (Illustrated)

Jack E. Levin has, at various times, been an author, artist, and small businessman. The son of immigrants, Levin is an American patriot who has never stopped loving his country.

Mark R. Levin is a nationally syndicated talk radio host and president of Landmark Legal Foundation. He has also worked as an attorney in the private sector and as a top adviser and administrator to several members of President Reagan's cabinet. He is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling book Liberty and Tyranny, as well as New York Times bestselling books Rescuing Sprite and Men in Black: How the Supreme Court Is Destroying America, Mark holds a B.A. from Temple University and a J.D. from Temple University School of Law.

Visit Mark Levin on the web at www.marklevinshow.com.

“Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation,

conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”

Long before his conservative manifesto Liberty and Tyranny became a #1 New York Times bestseller, Mark R. Levin's love for his country was instilled in him by his father, Jack E. Levin. At family dinners, Jack would share his bountiful knowledge of American history and, especially, the inspiration of Abraham Lincoln.

The son of immigrants, Jack Levin is an American patriot who responded with deep personal emotion

to Lincoln's call for liberty and equality. His admiration for the great Civil War president inspired

him to personally design and produce a beautiful volume, enhanced with period illustrations and

striking battlefield images by Matthew Brady and other renowned photographers of the era, that

brings to life the words of Lincoln's awe-inspiring response to one of the Civil War's costliest conflicts.

Now Jack Levin's loving homage to the spirit of American freedom is available in an essential edition

that features his original foreword as well as a touching new preface by his son, Mark Levin. In

this way, Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address Illustrated celebrates the passing of patriotic

pride and historical insight from generation to generation, from father to son.

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The day following the dedication of the National Soldier's Cemetery at Gettysburg, Edward Everett, who spoke before Lincoln, sent him a note saying: “Permit me to express my great admiration for the thoughts expressed by you, with such eloquent simplicity and appropriateness, at the consecration of the cemetery. I should be glad, if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes.”

Lincoln wrote back to Everett: “In our respective parts yesterday, you could not have

been excused to make a short address, nor I a long one. I am pleased to know that in

your judgement the little I did say was not entirely a failure.”