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Lincoln, Darwin, And The Making Of The Modern Age
Knopf
February 2009
On Sale: January 27, 2009
Featuring: Abraham Lincoln; charles darwin
224 pages
ISBN: 0307270785
EAN: 9780307270788
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Biography
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.
Each man had stirred a
moral cataclysm. With Lincoln, the great tide of blood he
released to save the Union left Americans reeling from
violence that seemed senseless. Meanwhile, Darwin’s
revelations of evolution and deep time, contradicting
biblical history, had revoked the promise of eternal life
and final judgment. But each man would also use his singular
genius for words to offer refuge from the unbearable thought
of a life without meaning. Together, through their writings,
Lincoln and Darwin would become midwives to a new kind of
hope and faith that sustains us to this day. Filled with
little-known stories and unfamiliar characters, Angels
and Ages reveals these men, whom we think we know, in a
new, shared light, a light that also makes plain the
unacknowledged origins of our modern vision and liberal values.
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