The Inaugural Address, 2009: Together with Abraham Lincoln's First and Second Inaugural Addresses and The Gettysburg Address and Ralph Waldo Emerson's Self-Reliance

Authors: Obama, Barack
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
BISAC/Subject: HIS036070, POL007000, LAN018000
ISBN: 9781101022610, Related ISBNs: 0143116428, 1101022612, 9780143116424, 9781101022610
Classification: Non-Fiction
Number of pages: 112,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: Celebrate the inauguration of America's 44th president with this New York Times bestseller

Tying into the official theme for the 2009 inaugural ceremony, "A New Birth of Freedom" from Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, Penguin presents a keepsake edition commemorating the inauguration of President Barack Obama with words of the two great thinkers and writers who have helped shape him politically, philosophically, and personally: Abraham Lincoln and Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Having Lincoln and Emerson's most influential, memorable, and eloquent words along with Obama's historic inaugural address will be a gift of inspiration for every American for generations to come.
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