Lincoln

“Superb … a grand entertainment… . A plausible and human Lincoln, of us and yet beyond us.” –Harold Bloom“A portrait of America’s great president that is at once intimate and public, stark and complex, and that will become for future generations the living Lincoln, the definitive Lincoln… . Richly entertaining … history lessons with the blood still hot.” –The Washington Post”[Lincoln] is in Vidal’s version at once more complex, mysterious and enigmatic, more implacably courageous and, finally, more tragic than the conventional images, the marble man of the memorial. He is honored in the book.” –Chicago Tribune

Gore Vidal (1925–2012) was born at the United States Military Academy at West Point. His first novel, Williwaw, written when he was 19 years old and serving in the army, appeared in the spring of 1946. He wrote 23 novels, five plays, many screenplays, short stories, well over 200 essays, and a memoir.