Angels and ages
Subtitle: a short book about Lincoln, Darwin, and modern life
By: Adam Gopnik.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9780307270788
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, -- 1809-1865; Lincoln, Abraham, -- 1809-1865 -- Influence; Darwin, Charles, -- 1809-1882; Darwin, Charles, -- 1809-1882 -- Influence; Presidents -- United States -- Biography; Naturalists -- England -- Biography; Civilization, Modern; Liberalism
Genres: Biography.
Description: On February 12, 1809, two men were born an ocean apart: Abraham Lincoln in a one-room Kentucky log cabin; Charles Darwin on an English country estate. Each would see his life's work inspire a stark change in mankind's understanding of itself. In this bicentennial twin portrait, Adam Gopnik shows how these two giants, who never met, altered the way we think about death and time--about the very nature of earthly existence.