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Gabor Boritt

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Gabor Boritt

Gabor Boritt is the Robert Fluhrer Professor of Civil War Studies and Director of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College. Born in World War II Hungary, he participated as a teenager in the 1956 revolution against the Soviet Union. He escaped to the United States, where he received his higher education and became one of the finest Lincoln scholars. His life story is soon to be the subject of a feature-length documentary film. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of sixteen books about Lincoln and the Civil War. Boritt and his wife live on a farm near the Gettysburg battlefield, where they have raised their three sons.

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Fortune, March 9, 2012
...opportunistic, and in his own way well-connected American whose life came to embody what the Civil War historian Gabor Boritt has called the "right to rise." You could also call it the American dream. Born into slavery in the last year of the 18th...
PBS, July 19, 2011
...well as the news accounts of the speech is included in an extensive appendix to a book by Gabor Boritt called "The Gettysburg Gospel," published in 2008. A Sixth Version? So, since millions of people over more than two decades have undoubtedly seen "The...
New York Times, February 1, 2012
...President Lincoln Helps His Old Friends”; Edward Bates, “Opinion on Citizenship”; Mark Benjamin, “Vanishing History at Arlington Cemetery”; Gabor Boritt, “The Gettysburg Gospel”; Michael Burlingame, “Abraham Lincoln: A Life”; James...
New York Times, February 1, 2012
..."President Lincoln Helps His Old Friends"; Edward Bates, "Opinion on Citizenship"; Mark Benjamin, "Vanishing History at Arlington Cemetery"; Gabor Boritt, "The Gettysburg Gospel"; Michael Burlingame, "Abraham Lincoln: A Life"; James Cornelius, "William...