Introduction: Angels and Ages. Lincoln's Mind. Darwin's Eye. Lincoln in History. Darwin in Time. Ages and Angels. A Bibliographic Note.
Adam Gopnik has been writing for the New Yorker since 1986. He is a three-time winner of the National Magazine Award for Essays and for Criticism, and the George Polk Award for magazine reporting. From 1995 to 2000 he lived in Paris; he now lives in New York City with his wife and their two children.
'Adam Gopnik has taken a coincidence and turned it into a theory of
everything, or at least of everything important ...
Outstanding'
*Andrew Marr*
'Vivid and charming ... Gopnik moves from the personal to the
political with ease, and his writing hums with authenticity'
*Financial Times*
'Adam Gopnik is a great essayist, with a precise, fastidious, if
occasionally mannered style.... His insights are good and the book
is informed by the author's profound liberalism'
*New Statesman*
'This is the essay every essayist would like to have written...he
teases, returns again, holds back punchlines and concludes dense
paragraphs with intense little summary bombs... The core of the
book, the chemical conversion of coincidence to idea, is the
proposition that Darwin and Lincoln both entered a world in which
people understood themselves vertically - God above, Hell
below...outstanding essay'
*Daily Telegraph*
'Gopnik knows well enough that Darwin and Lincoln's shared birth
date is a mere accident of history, but he comes as close as anyone
can in convincing you otherwise'
*New Scientist*
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