Angels and Ages
In this captivating double life, Adam Gopnik searches for the men behind the icons of emancipation and evolution. Born by cosmic coincidence on the same day in 1809 and separated by an ocean, Lincoln and Darwin coauthored our sense of history and our understanding of man’s place in the world. Here Gopnik reveals these two men as they really were: family men and social climbers, ambitious manipulators and courageous adventurers, grieving parents and brilliant scholars. Above all we see them as thinkers and writers, making and witnessing the great changes in thought that mark truly modern times.
224 pages, 8 editions
English edition · First published 2009 by Random House Digital Inc. · ISBN 9780307271211
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Editions
8 editions
English
- Angels and Ages · Random House Digital Inc. · 2009 · ISBN 9780307271211 This page
- Angels and Ages: A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln and Modern Life · riverrun · 2010 · ISBN 9781849165815
- Angels and Ages: A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln and Modern Life · Quercus · 2010 · ISBN 9781849161862
- Angels and Ages: A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life · Alfred A. Knopf · 2009 · ISBN 9780307270788
- Angels and Ages: A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life · Recorded Books · 2009 · ISBN 9781436192606
- Angels and Ages: A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life · Quercus · 2009 · ISBN 9781847249296
- Angels and Ages · Knopf · 2009 · ISBN 9781615233717
- Angels and Ages: A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life · Recorded Books · 2009 · ISBN 9781436170178
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