Lincoln (Narratives of Empire #2)

The second novel in the chronology of Vidal's epic CHRONICLES OF EMPIRE, embodying the passage of American History. -- Lincoln is the cornerstone of Gore Vidal's fictional American chronicle, which includes "Burr", "1876", "Washington, D.C.", "Empire" & "Hollywood"... It opens early on a frozen winter morning in 1861, when President-elect Abraham Lincoln slips into Washington, flanked by two bodyguards. The future president is in disguise, for there's talk of a plot to murder him. During the next four years there will be numerous plots to murder this man who has sworn to unite a disintegrating nation. Isolated in a ramshackle White House in the center of a proslavery city, Lincoln presides over a fragmenting government as Lee's armies beat at the gates. In this profoundly moving novel, a work of epic proportions & intense human sympathy, Lincoln is observed by his loved ones & his rivals. The cast of characters is almost Dickensian: politicians, generals, White House aides, newspapermen, Northern & Southern conspirators, amiably evil bankers & a wife slowly going mad. Vidal's portrait of the president is at once intimate & monumental, stark & complex, drawn with the wit, grace & authority of one of the great historical novelists'.'

História / Romance