Orville Vernon Burton - The Age of Lincoln - Notes

 I am hoping this is a good book with fresh things to say about Lincoln and his era.

P.   3 Lincoln began his Gettysburg speech with a far reaching claim that in my opinion is not quite true, that our forefathers brought forth a new nation starting with the Declaration.  The country actually began with the ratification of the Constitution.

This book reads like a progressive tour of 19th Century America.