Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews's Collected Works: The Perfect Tribute, The Lifted Bandage, The Militants, August First, and More! (8 Works) (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews (April 2, 1860 - August 2, 1936) was an American writer. She is best known for a widely read short story about US President Abraham Lincoln, "The Perfect Tribute", which was adapted for film twice and sold 600,000 copies when published as a standalone volume. Andrews' best remembered work, "The Perfect Tribute", appeared in Scribner's in July 1906. It depicts Lincoln writing and delivering the Gettysburg Address, then concluding his speech was an utter failure. Later, he comforts a Confederate Captain as he dies in a prison hospital, and the Captain, who does not recognize him, praises the Address as "one of the great speeches in history". The wildly popular story was assigned reading for multiple generations of school children in the United States and may be the most popular book ever published about Lincoln, though historians take issue with Andrews' work. The story was largely responsible for the persistent myth that Lincoln hurriedly wrote the Address on the train on the way to Gettysburg. That story reached Andrews through her son Paul, whose history teacher, Walter Burlingame, overheard his father, diplomat Anson Burlingame, hear it from Senator Edward Everett, the featured speaker at Gettysburg. (Incidentally, Burlingame's other son, Edward L. Burlingame, was the founding editor of Scribner's.) "The Perfect Tribute" was adapted into a 1935 MGM short film starring Chic Sale as Lincoln and a 1991 television movie starring Jason Robards as the President. Two of Andrews' other works were adapted for film: The Courage of the Common Place in 1917 and Three Things, as The Unbeliever in 1918. Included in this collection: (8 Works) A Good Samaritan The Militants The Perfect Tribute The Lifted Bandage The Fifth of October The Courage of the Commonplace August First Joy in the Morning