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Angels and Ages
Adam Gopnik
其他書名
Lincoln, Darwin, and the Birth of the Modern Age
出版Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2010-02-09
主題Biography & Autobiography / HistoricalHistory / Social HistoryHistory / Historiography
ISBN03074553009780307455307
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=tlAxFTlMG54C&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋In this captivating double life, Adam Gopnik searches for the men behind the icons of emancipation and evolution. Born by cosmic coincidence on the same day in 1809 and separated by an ocean, Lincoln and Darwin coauthored our sense of history and our understanding of man’s place in the world. Here Gopnik reveals these two men as they really were: family 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 truly modern times.