Over All Rating Reviews : Great Deal : $8.34
Date Created : Jun 22, 2010 19:00:06
A Union cavalryman volunteers to lead a detail of handpicked sharpshooters in a daring attempt to assassinate Confederate General Robert E. Lee and end the war.
±1±: Best Buy To appreciate the talent of this superb author and the historical accuracy of this novel, you must have both a knowledge of and an appreciation for those four years plus of unparalleled conflict, human sacrifice, and the comprehensive national destruction wrought by the Civil War. However, if you lack these, you will no longer lack them after you read this book!
T.K. Marion has captured the intense and severe emotional, psychological, and spiritual struggles of the characters he uses to tell this story. I can think of nothing he has omitted. He captures the essence of the much loved and respected General of the Confederate Army, Robert E. Lee, and of his counterpart, Union General-in-Chief, Ulysses S. Grant. Perhaps even more remarkable are the down-to-earth, "real" people Marion introduces his readers to. In this book, the history of that unique time period and those who endured it come alive through these characters, their respective histories, struggles, and perspectives. I read this novel and have come away with a renewed focus on an era when time stood still while America grappled with one of the most morally challenging questions of its young history.
A man who can write like this should avail himself of every opportunity to take us back in time to periods in our shared history when all of us are forced to come to terms with the meaningful and deeply spiritual issues which continue to make us the greatest nation on earth.
It is my earnest hope that Marion will give us more of his exceptional skill with words and his command of history in further historical novels. I will buy many more copies of this book, giving them as gifts. I thank T.K. Marion for the pleasure he has given me in the reading of this book, and look forward with heightened anticipation to his next work! on Sale!
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Over All Rating Reviews : Great Deal : $6.84
Date Created : Jun 16, 2010 05:58:19
“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.
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.”
±1±: Best Buy I appreciated the simplistic quality of this very small book. Read it in 15 minutes and then read it 3 more times days later. Jack E Levin definitely got his point across of his love of our country and the respect for Lincoln.
The book has a nice preface by Mark Levin telling about his father and mother and the 3 sons upbringing. The really emotional part to me was his father's family experiences during the depression. I remember the stories my father used to tell me about what his family did to survive the depression. Sadly my father passed away with cancer. I was the care giver. My Mom passed away a few years earlier. The simple preface brought tears to my eyes as I remembered the good times when my Dad was feeling well and told me about his experiences during the depression.
I remember reading the Gettysburg Address once in high school and once sometime thereafter. I'm definitely letting my two teenage daughters read this book. Its important history and more important easily shows love for this country.
What impressed my about this book was how Jack Levin could get his point across though a very simplistic few Founding fathers, Civil War/Gettysburg photos and spreading the address in a simplistic way with large letters. This book instantly shows Jack's love of his country and the respect he has for Abraham Lincoln. I did learn there were 5 copies of the address to various people but Jack used the only one signed and dated by Lincoln. Jack's small forward was done very well.
Those expecting a vast teaching book about Gettysburg and a detailed explanation about the Gettysburg Address will be disappointed. INMO this was never intended to do that but in a deliberate simple way show the general public the suffering on both sides, the love of country , what had to be done to preserve the union and the forgiveness and love of country by Abraham Lincoln. I liked this book so much I'm buying a deliberate detailed book on Gettysburg,and the Gettysburg Address. I'll review it on Amazon.
Thanks Jack for getting me interested again. Mark you have a great patriotic Dad. Cherish the time with him and your mom. on Sale!
