Annal:1992 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism
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Results of the National Book Critics Circle Award in the year 1992. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism
- Nonfiction books
- Nonfiction authors
- Criticism books
- Criticism authors.
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America
- 1993 Pulitzer–Nonfiction winner
- 1992 NBCC–Criticism winner
- 1993 Pulitzer–History finalist
- 1992 NBA–Nonfiction finalist
- Score: 32.43
The power of words has rarely been given a more compelling demonstration than in the Gettysburg Address. Lincoln was asked to memorialize the gruesome battle. Instead, he gave the whole nation “a new birth of freedom” in the space of a mere 272 words. His entire life and previous training, and his deep political experience went into this, his revolutionary masterpiece.
By examining both the address and Lincoln in their historical moment and cultural frame, Wills breathes new life into words we thought we knew, and reveals much about a president so mythologized…
