Introduction: Angels and Ages. Lincoln's Mind. Darwin's Eye. Lincoln in History. Darwin in Time. Ages and Angels. A Bibliographic Note.
Adam Gopnik is the author of Paris to the Moon and Through the Children's Gate and is a contributor to The New Yorker. He lives in New York City with his wife and 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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