Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Malice toward None: Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address / Jack E. Levin, unpaged

A slim volume which includes the complete text of Lincoln's speech, with period photographs and artwork by the author.  The book includes a preface and excerpted speeches given at Civil War commemorations.  The text of the speech is much briefer than I realized, making the book a potential choice for a family read.

This is an attractive-ish volume and a nice idea, but something isn't quite right about the execution here.  The pages are laid out in way that at first makes it unclear where the author's information and Lincoln's own words begin.  And the pages are often visually cluttered - with interesting items, but still cluttered.  Most annoying is an excerpted speech by some nobody at a 50-year Civil War commemoration, in the same font as the Inaugural address.


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