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Lincoln: A Novel - Gore Vidal
Lincoln: A Novel
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Format: ebook
ISBN: 9781299037816 (129903781X)
Publisher: Vintage Books
Edition language: English
Series: Narratives of Empire (#2)
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Lisa (Harmony)
Lisa (Harmony) rated it
4.0 Lincoln: A Novel (The American Chronicle Series)
A flattering blurb on the cover from Harold Bloom and one inside from Joyce Carol Oates certainly underlines this is a serious book; it's also an engaging and entertaining one, one that portrays the personalities and political machinations during the Civil War. Lincoln isn't just a celebrated Americ...
Rowena's Reviews
Rowena's Reviews rated it
4.0
I really like how Vidal writes. I read half of this novel before I watched the Lincoln movie (not the vampire hunter one :D) and I was really impressed by the amount of research that went into this book. As someone who knows very little American history, I definitely gained a lot more knowledge afte...
JeffreyKeeten
JeffreyKeeten rated it
The 13th Amendment to the Constitution declared that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." Formally abolishing slavery in the Un...
AC
AC rated it
I doubt I'm going to get back to this. It's too long and, frankly, the writing is average at best. And historicalfiction, I suppose, is not my favorite genre - though I've read very, very little of it.
riley
riley rated it
5.0 Lincoln: A Novel (The American Chronicle Series)
This quite the impressive book. HIstorical figures are rendered as believable characters. I buy Vidal's Lincoln as a human being in a way that I can't when I am handed one of the mythological portraits of him that are so dominant. There are some major factual errors but I don't think they are par...
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