Angels and ages : a short book about Darwin, Lincoln, and modern life / Adam Gopnik.

1st ed.

9780307270788
0307270785

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.

English

211 p. ; 25 cm.

E457.2 .G67 2009

973.7092

On February 12, 1809, two men were born an ocean apart: Abraham Lincoln in a one-room Kentucky log cabin; Charles Darwin on an English country estate. Each would see his life's work inspire a stark change in mankind's understanding of itself. In this bicentennial twin portrait, Adam Gopnik shows how these two giants, who never met, altered the way we think about death and time--about the very nature of earthly existence.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-211).

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