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Posted by: Brittany Sims on Feb 11, 2015

James L. Cotton Jr., author of "The Greatest Speech Ever," will address the Tennessee State Senate tomorrow (Feb. 12) on the anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birthday. The book recounts the remarkable story of Lincoln and his Gettysburg Address. Cotton, a General Sessions Court judge in Scott County, will talk about the impact the speech had on bringing a new understanding of freedom to America and will focus on the happenings in Lincoln's life that inspired the key points in what many historians consider the greatest speech in American history. Learn more about Cotton’s book in the February 2014 issue of the Tennessee Bar Journal.