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Angels and Ages: A Short Book about Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life By Adam Gopnik 211 pages; Knopf...
Much has been made in recent weeks of the shared birthday of Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin, two juggernauts not only of their own age, but of all the years since. New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik explores their legacies in this book-length series of essays, focusing on their abilities as writers and thinkers of the highest caliber. As Gopnik writes, "Literary eloquence is essential to liberal civilization; our heroes should be men and women possessed by the urgency of utterance." With their adherence to logic and observation, and devotion to thoughtful expression, Lincoln and Darwin - in addition to everything...
...origin of Lincoln's facility with words: "The frontier America of Lincoln's youth was first of all a rhetorical society, where the ability to speak in public, at length was central to social ambitions; giving a speech in 1838 in Illinois was the equivalent of putting on a play in 1598 in London, the thing you did into which everything else flowed. (We are, by turn - and a writer says it with sadness - essentially a society of images: a viral YouTube video, an advertising image, proliferates and sums up our desires; anyone who can't play the image game...
Thursday, she said, is the 200th birthday of both Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin...
...trip of glimpses. We climbed on each others’ toes to glimpse Beyoncé through binoculars at the Lincoln Memorial We Are One concert. We glimpsed Obama’s official portrait in the packed lobby of the National Portrait Gallery. We glimpsed Bush’s helicopter fly over the crowd as he departed from the District. We glimpsed the greatest political leaders in America over the tops of people’s hats on a screen at the Mall. But the most exciting glimpse of all happened the night before the inauguration, when Mariah...