Lincoln (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Gore Vidal
- First Published: 1984
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction
- Subjects: Nineteenth century, Washington, D.C., Civil War, Politicians, Assassination, Presidents, Biography
- Locales: Virginia, Paris, France, Washington, D.C.
Lincoln surprised some readers, who expected Vidal to turn his iconoclastic wit on the Great Emancipator, as he had Washington and Jefferson. Instead, Vidal draws an admiring portrait of the Civil War president. In this long, rich study of Lincoln during the Civil War, Vidal describes the interwoven lives of a variety of people surrounding Lincoln in the war-besieged capital: Young John Hay, Lincoln's personal secretary (and later one of the greatest American secretaries of state); Lincoln's rivals for power in the Republican party, including wily Secretary of State William...
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