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Angels and Ages: A Short Book about Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life (Hardcover)
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Description
In this bicentennial twin portrait of Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin, Gopnik shows how these two giants altered the way people think about death and time--about the very nature of earthly existence.
About the Author
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.
Praise for Angels and Ages: A Short Book about Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life…
"[A]rresting….lively and wide-ranging….[Gopnik's] astute analysis…shows us why these thinkers and writers, who maintained 'a tragic consciousness without robbing it of a hopeful view,' have so robustly survived to our own time."
- Christopher Benfey, The New York Times Book Review
“entertaining….an introduction that brilliantly encapsulates ….Gopnik draws vividly characterized personal and intellectual portraits of each man….[he] has selected [the material] with a novelist’s skill….Gopnik’s writing is pungent, inventive and rich.”
- Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times Book Review
“[A] learned treatise that worships learning….Gopnik offers a meditation on each man’s most literary qualities: Lincoln’s deceptively simple legalistic language and Darwin’s crystalline powers of observation….a succinct, convincing, and moving account of how two men ripped mankind out of its past unreason and thrust it into a more enlightened age.”
-Gilbert Cruz, Time
“Gopnik casts fresh and honest light on two figures distorted by years of excessive comment, quotation, and ideological appropriation….[His] thesis is…an ambitious one, and he defends it well….[an] elegant book.”
- Josh Burek, Christian Science Monitor
“Adam Gopnik celebrates….the beauty of a perfectly calibrated argument….Gopnik revels in the revolutionary ideas that helped create our ‘moral modernity’ as he reveals the complex characters who unearthed startling truths about nature, human and otherwise.”
- Cathleen Medwick, O: The Oprah Magazine
“elegant, intelligent meditation on skepticism and the making of the liberal mind….intriguing hypothesis–that [Lincoln and Darwin] weren’t ever, actually, in natural conflict: The real enemy of religion isn’t science, [Gopnik] says, it’s history.”
- David Wallace-Wells, The New York Observer
“thoughtful meditation on the contemporary meaning of the lives of Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln….[Gopnik] offers an eloquent and elegant comparison of two great men, expounding on how they achieved their stature and what their accomplishments mean for us today….a profound discussion of the relationship between faith and science….Gopnik’s examination of these two men leads to nothing less than the exploration of what it means to live a meaningful life….Gopnik…distilled knowledge of an enormous set of biographical facts to come to some far-reaching conclusions about what it means to be human….amazing work of scholarship and philosophical thought.”
- John C. Ensslin, Rocky Mountain News
“[From] one of our best essayists….[with] overwhelming truths….Angels and Ages makes a persuasive case that our liberal, bourgeois lives, resting on reason, law, and the primacy of science, rest also on Darwin and Lincoln….it is...powerful [and] emotional…covering breathtaking acreage with trenchant flair.”
- John Timpane, Philadelphia Inquirer
“perceptive, very articulate author….intriguing treatise, appealing to a popular audience as the nation and world celebrate the bicentennial of this duo’s birth.”
- Brad Hooper, Booklist (starred review)
