Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America

Know Your Enemy

Matthew Sitman

William F Buckley, News, Right Wing, Conservatism, Society & Culture, Ronald Reagan, Conservative Movement, Politics, Leftists Look At Conservatism, Reactionaries, Socialists, History, National Review

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🗓️ 6 July 2026

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Matt and Sam discuss Garry Wills's Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America.

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0:00.0	All right, welcome listeners to episode 139 of Know Your Enemy.
0:05.0	I'm Matt Sitman, your podcast, co-host, and I'm here as always with my great friend, Sam Metherbell.
0:10.4	Hello, Sam.
0:11.2	Hi, Matt.
0:11.9	Are you finally recovered from your birthday party last week?
0:16.5	Fairly.
0:17.5	I know, same.
0:18.6	I loved having you there.
0:19.9	It was so fun.
0:20.9	And Matt and Max did come down to Brooklyn.
0:23.4	Not just Brooklyn, but Red Hook.
0:26.8	I was texting with John Gans, friend of the pod before your party earlier that day.
0:31.6	And he had this great line.
0:32.6	He said, you know, Sam occasionally has a benign perversity that he expresses, and having all his
0:39.3	friends schlepped a redhook is one of them.
0:42.0	That's true of me, for sure.
0:44.0	Anyways, you were recovered in time for us to totally, I mean, I had such a blast talking
0:50.2	about this book with you.
0:51.6	Listeners, this episode is our latest entry in the
0:55.2	Wills Pilled, Pick a Book of Gary Wills to discuss at length on the show. And of course,
1:01.0	given that if you're listening to this, it'll be just two days after America turns 250,
1:07.4	after July 4th, of course we're reading Gary's 1992 book, Pulitzer Prize winning, Lincoln
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