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    The Greatest Speech, Ever: The Remarkable Story of Abraham Lincoln and His Gettysburg Address

    By James H. Cotton, Jr.

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    This book was written to be more than a specialized monograph about the Gettysburg Address. The author digressed along the way into side excursions and back roads of Abraham Lincoln’s remarkable life – exploring his hardscrabble childhood, and his courageous but controversial Emancipation Proclamation. After all, to fully understand how the Gettysburg Address came to be, one must understand how Abraham Lincoln came to be. Part of the greatness of the Gettysburg Address is that the DNA of Lincoln’s life is found in every word.
    Senator Baker in his Foreword wrote “Judge Cotton’s book is not only a fascinating and scholarly assessment of the Gettysburg Address and its impact on America, but also an absorbing look into Abraham Lincoln’s life.”
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHistory Publishing Company, LLC
    Release dateNov 19, 2013
    ISBN9781933909912
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    The Greatest Speech, Ever: The Remarkable Story of Abraham Lincoln and His Gettysburg Address
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    James H. Cotton, Jr.

    James (Jamie) H. Cotton, Jr. and his family reside in a small community in the Appalachian Mountains.  Mr. Cotton is an honors graduate of Tennessee Technological University (Political Science, 1976) and the University of Memphis School of Law (J.D.,1980).  During the last 23 years of his 33 year law career, he has presided as Judge over the General Sessions Court for Scott County, where he has jurisdiction over family law, civil litigation, criminal and juvenile cases, and also presides as drug court judge.  He has served on the Adjunct Faculty of Roane State Community College for more than two decades.  Judge Cotton is the author of a school program for prevention of child substance abuse, known as STAND (Schools Together Allowing No Drugs), which is being used as a model program across the country and was recognized in 2008 for its excellence in Washington, D.C.  He is also author of How to Get Loose from a Snapping Turtle . . .  Before It Thunders (2002), a light compilation of homespun Appalachian "remedies, cures and fixes."

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