Tying into the official theme for the 2009 Inauguration, “A New Birth of Freedom” from Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, Penguin presents a keepsake edition commemorating the inauguration of President-elect 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 much-anticipated historical inaugural address will be a gift of inspiration for every American and a keepsake for generations.

Includes:

* Barack Obama, Inaugural Address, 2009

* Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address, 1865

* Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address, 1863

* Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address, 1861

* Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance, 1841