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Lincoln : A Novel by Gore Vidal (2000, Trade Paperback)

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Brilliantly conceived, masterfully executed, Gore Vidal's Lincoln allows the man to breathe again. Lincoln by Gore Vidal. Author Gore Vidal. Title Lincoln. Format Paperback.

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Product Identifiers

PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-100375708766

ISBN-139780375708763

eBay Product ID (ePID)1609137

Product Key Features

Book TitleLincoln : a Novel

Number of Pages672 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicLiterary, Political, Historical

Publication Year2000

GenreFiction

AuthorGore Vidal

Book SeriesVintage International Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height1 in

Item Weight16 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.2 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition19

Reviews"Superb . . . a grand entertainment. . . . A plausible and human Lincoln, of us and yet beyond us." --Harold Bloom "A portrait of America's great president that is at once intimate and public, stark and complex, and that will become for future generations the living Lincoln, the definitive Lincoln. . . . Richly entertaining . . . history lessons with the blood still hot." --The Washington Post "[Lincoln] is in Vidal's version at once more complex, mysterious and enigmatic, more implacably courageous and, finally, more tragic than the conventional images, the marble man of the memorial. He is honored in the book." --Chicago Tribune

Dewey Decimal813/.54

SynopsisGore Vidal's Narratives of Empire series spans the history of the United States from the Revolution to the post-World War II years. With their broad canvas and large cast of fictional and historical characters, the novels in this series present a panorama of the American political and imperial experience as interpreted by one of its most worldly, knowing, and ironic observers. To most Americans, Abraham Lincoln is a monolithic figure, the Great Emancipator and Savior of the Union, beloved by all. In Gore Vidal's Lincoln we meet Lincoln the man and Lincoln the political animal, the president who entered a besieged capital where most of the population supported the South and where even those favoring the Union had serious doubts that the man from Illinois could save it. Far from steadfast in his abhorrence of slavery, Lincoln agonizes over the best course of action and comes to his great decision only when all else seems to fail. As the Civil War ravages his nation, Lincoln must face deep personal turmoil, the loss of his dearest son, and the harangues of a wife seen as a traitor for her Southern connections. Brilliantly conceived, masterfully executed, Gore Vidal's Lincoln allows the man to breathe again.