Description
On this captivating double life, Adam Gopnik searches for the men at the back of the icons of emancipation and evolution. Born by cosmic accident at the same day in 1809 and separated by an ocean, Lincoln and Darwin coauthored our sense of history and our working out of man’s place on this planet. Here Gopnik reveals these two men as they in reality were: circle of relatives men and social climbers, ambitious manipulators and courageous adventurers, grieving parents and brilliant scholars. Above all we see them as thinkers and writers, making and witnessing the great changes in thought that mark really up to date times.