Lincoln (Modern Library) - Hardcover

Vidal, Gore

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679602844 ISBN 13: 9780679602842

Verlag: Modern Library Inc, 1998

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Book by Vidal Gore

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The character of President Lincoln, unremittingly tested by the trials of the war years, is reflected through the eyes of the diverse and colorful denizens of Washington, including his wife Mary and his political rivals and disciples

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he cornerstone of Gore Vidal's fictional American chronicle, which includes Burr, 1876, Washington, D.C., Empire, and Hollywood. It opens early on a frozen winter morning in 1861, when President-elect Abraham Lincoln slips into Washington, flanked by two bodyguards. The future president is in disguise, for there is talk of a plot to murder him. During the next four years there will be numerous plots to murder this man who has sworn to unite a disintegrating nation. Isolated in a ramshackle White House in the center of a proslavery city, Lincoln presides over a fragmenting government as Lee's armies beat at the gates. In this profoundly moving novel, a work of epic proportions and intense human sympathy, Lincoln is observed by his loved ones and his rivals. The cast of characters is almost Dickensian: politicians, generals, White House aides, newspapermen, Northern and Southern conspirators, amiably evil bankers, and a wife slowly going mad. Vidal's portrait of the president is at once intimate

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• Verlag: Modern Library Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0679602844
• ISBN 13: 9780679602842
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 1038