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Lincoln

- Number 2 in series
Af: Gore Vidal Engelsk Paperback

Lincoln

- Number 2 in series
Af: Gore Vidal Engelsk Paperback
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In the hazardous fictional terrain of his historical novels, Gore Vidal is never especially kind to American history in general, or to its icons in particular. Yet in this brilliantly realised study of Abraham Lincoln, he paints a surprising and near-heroic picture of the man who led America through four of the most divisive and dangerous years of the nation''s history. Observed alternately by his loved ones, his rivals and his future assassins, Lincoln at first appears as an inept and naïve backwoods lawyer. People in this novel are not averse to turning up, getting drunk, and regaling the reader with details of Lincoln''s whoring activities and his seemingly inexhaustible supply of folksy stories. Yet gradually Lincoln the towering leader of deep vision emerges in a Washington engulfed by fear, greed and the horrors of the Civil War. Lincoln''s loving but mentally decomposing wife, his view from the White House on slavery and America''s bloodiest war, and his own, fierce personal ambition: all are portrayed with a vibrancy and an urgency that almost belies what they have now become ? history itself.
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In the hazardous fictional terrain of his historical novels, Gore Vidal is never especially kind to American history in general, or to its icons in particular. Yet in this brilliantly realised study of Abraham Lincoln, he paints a surprising and near-heroic picture of the man who led America through four of the most divisive and dangerous years of the nation''s history. Observed alternately by his loved ones, his rivals and his future assassins, Lincoln at first appears as an inept and naïve backwoods lawyer. People in this novel are not averse to turning up, getting drunk, and regaling the reader with details of Lincoln''s whoring activities and his seemingly inexhaustible supply of folksy stories. Yet gradually Lincoln the towering leader of deep vision emerges in a Washington engulfed by fear, greed and the horrors of the Civil War. Lincoln''s loving but mentally decomposing wife, his view from the White House on slavery and America''s bloodiest war, and his own, fierce personal ambition: all are portrayed with a vibrancy and an urgency that almost belies what they have now become ? history itself.
Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 736
ISBN-13: 9780349105307
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0349105308
Kategori: Historiske romaner
Udg. Dato: 2 apr 1994
Længde: 47mm
Bredde: 127mm
Højde: 197mm
Forlag: Little, Brown Book Group
Oplagsdato: 2 apr 1994
Forfatter(e): Gore Vidal
Forfatter(e) Gore Vidal


Kategori Historiske romaner


ISBN-13 9780349105307


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 736


Udgave


Længde 47mm


Bredde 127mm


Højde 197mm


Udg. Dato 2 apr 1994


Oplagsdato 2 apr 1994


Forlag Little, Brown Book Group

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