Angels and Ages: A Short Book about Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life - 1st Ed

Description: Angels and Ages: A Short Book about Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life First Edition, Hardcover, Dust Jacket On a memorable day in human history, February 12, 1809, two babies were born an ocean apart: Abraham Lincoln in a one-room Kentucky log cabin; Charles Darwin on an English country estate. It was a time of backward-seeming notions, when almost everyone still accepted the biblical account of creation as the literal truth and authoritarianism as the most natural and viable social order. But by the time both men died, the world had changed: ordinary people understood that life on earth was a story of continuous evolution, and the Civil War had proved that a democracy could fight for principles and endure. And with these signal insights much else had changed besides. Together, Darwin and Lincoln had become midwives to the spirit of a new world, a new kind of hope and faith. Here is the captivating double life, Lincoln and Darwin as they really were: family men and social climbers; ambitious manipulators and courageous adventurers; the living husband, father, son, and student behind each myth. How do we reconcile Lincoln, the supremely good man we know, with the hardened commander who wittingly sent tens of thousands of young soldiers to certain death? Why did the relentlessly rational Darwin delay publishing his “Great Idea” for almost twenty years? How did inconsolable grief at the loss of a beloved child change each man? And what comfort could either find—for himself or for a society now possessed of a sadder, if wiser, understanding of our existence? Not sure if this has been read, but it is in great conditon with a new, never read look to it. From a clean, non-smoking home. Questions ??? Contact me INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING done through Ebay’s Global Shipping Program Note: Color may vary some due to monitor settings

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Publication Year: 2009

Format: Hardcover

Language: English

Book Title: Angels and Ages: A Short Book about Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern L

Narrative Type: Nonfiction

Author: Adam Gopnik

Features: Dust Jacket, First Edition, Deckled Edged

Publisher: Knopf

Genre: History, Biography & Autobiography, Political Science

Topic: Civilization, Environmentalists & Naturalists, Political Ideologies / Conservatism & Liberalism, Presidents & Heads of State, Science & Technology

Edition: First Edition