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Lincoln (Narratives of Empire #2)

Gore Vidal

Paperback | Pages: 672 pages

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Title	:	Lincoln (Narratives of Empire #2)
Author	:	Gore Vidal
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 672 pages
Published	:	February 15th 2000 by Vintage (first published 1984)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Military History. Civil War

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Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire series spans the history of the United States from the Revolution to the post-World War II years. With their broad canvas and large cast of fictional and historical characters, the novels in this series present a panorama of the American political and imperial experience as interpreted by one of its most worldly, knowing, and ironic observers.

To most Americans, Abraham Lincoln is a monolithic figure, the Great Emancipator and Savior of the Union, beloved by all. In Gore Vidal's Lincoln we meet Lincoln the man and Lincoln the political animal, the president who entered a besieged capital where most of the population supported the South and where even those favoring the Union had serious doubts that the man from Illinois could save it. Far from steadfast in his abhorrence of slavery, Lincoln agonizes over the best course of action and comes to his great decision only when all else seems to fail. As the Civil War ravages his nation, Lincoln must face deep personal turmoil, the loss of his dearest son, and the harangues of a wife seen as a traitor for her Southern connections. Brilliantly conceived, masterfully executed, Gore Vidal's Lincoln allows the man to breathe again.

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Original Title:	Lincoln
ISBN:	0375708766 (ISBN13: 9780375708763)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Narratives of Empire #2
Characters:	Abraham Lincoln, Walt Whitman, William H. Seward, John Wilkes Booth, Mary Todd Lincoln, Rose O'Neal Greenhow, James Buchanan, David Herold, Mary Surratt, John Surratt, Jr., Richard Lyons, James A. Garfield, Elizabeth Keckley, Salmon P. Chase, Robert Todd Lincoln, Tad Lincoln, Kate Chase, William Sprague IV, Irvin McDowell, Simon Cameron, John Hay, John George Nicolay, Thaddeus Stevens, William Howard Russell, Allan Pinkerton, Ward Hill Lamon, Elihu B. Washburne, Francis Preston Blair, Henry Wikoff, William Herndon, Daniel Sickles, William Wallace Lincoln, John Watt, John R. Goldsborough, John E. Wool, Egbert Ludovicus Viele, Henry D. Cooke, Henry Halleck, John Pope, Joseph Hooker, Adele Cutts Douglas, Frederick W. Seward, Ambrose Burnside, Benjamin Wade, George Meade, Edmund Spangler, Emilie Todd Helm, Montgomery Blair, William P. Fessenden, Ulysses S. Grant, John C. Breckinridge, Winfield Scott, Francis Preston Blair Jr., George McClellan, Charles Sumner, Edwin Stanton, Gideon Welles
Setting:	Washington, D.C.(United States)
Literary Awards:	Benjamin Barondess Award (1985)

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i've heard slavery had something to do with this guy. maybe i need to read another book on him or something.

Gore Vidal was a huge discovery for me. Until I'd read this book, I knew only that he was related to Jackie Kennedy Onassis and and Lee Radziwill and that he was a guest on many talk shows of the 70s & 80s where other well-known guests frequently found his opinions profoundly upsetting. But there was a lot of that going on at the time. I have always admired Abraham Lincoln as our most important president (except for brief periods when I was enamored of Thomas Jefferson, Harry Truman and John

Whatever hubris it takes to write a biography of Abraham Lincoln, it surely takes plenty to write a research-intensive 657-page novel that covers the entire presidency. Vidal accomplishes this compression by including a pile of exposition in dialogue without it ever quite seeming like he's doing so; perhaps famous national leaders are the only characters in fiction exempt from the rule. Portraits of "minor" characters -- John Hay (one of Lincoln's personal secretaries) and Kate Chase (daughter

I became obsessed with this book! Very rich. Wierd parallels with current happenings...

I loved this book SO MUCH, I am sure my review will not do it justice. It shows a complex, nuanced version of Lincoln. It is not a book you can skim through, even though it is historical fiction - all the events and as much of the dialog that can be reconstructed from letters and speeches is accurate. And the dialog is magnificent! Lincoln comes off as the most interesting person in history, it is fascinating to feel you are a witness to history as you see him converse with his "team of rivals"

Really, this book is a 4.7... Along with "Team of Rival" and the movie 'Lincoln' this is truly the most interesting and entertaining Lincoln novel I have read. Gone is the stereotypical self-educated, rail splitter who was born in a log cabin he helped his father build, replaced by an adroit, take-no-prisoners political creature, capable of doing the right things in the most efficient (yet sometimes illegal) ways...Vidal has created personalities out of historical characters, from the very young

Arguably the best historical fiction book every written beating out even notables like Shaara's Killer Angels. Hell this is probably one of the top 5 books on the Civil War period. (Along with Shelby Foote's epic three volume opus, McPherson's Battle Cry of Freedom, and the aforementioned Killer Angels)If you have the slightest interest in history, the Civil War, Lincoln or even just a beautifully constructed story of politics in a time of war read it. Meticulously researched and exquisitely put