Lincoln book gore vidal7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() But then, Lincoln himself was most powerful when he was brief, as the astonishing Gettysburg address shows." ![]() "There is also a very touching scene where he visits wounded Confederate soldiers, so powerful that I sometimes pull the book from the shelves to find it, and am astonished by how brief it is. "Vidal’s portrayal,of a man conspired against by his Cabinet and his generals, plagued by a wife on the brink of madness, fearful of her wild expenditure, devastated by the death of a beloved son, living in a rickety, insecure White House where there is no privacy, is very, very moving. So it's an interesting coincidence that I mentioned "Lincoln" on this blog for the first time last week, and then read Wednesday of Vidal's death.īritish writer Peter Hitchens (The Mail on Sunday) is also a fan of Vidal's "Lincoln," which he called Wednesday "a historical novel of charm and power, which is also thrilling and moving." Though I have a beat-up paperback copy at home, I've only glanced at it once or twice in probably the last decade. ![]() I read Gore Vidal's "Lincoln: A Novel" shortly after it first came out back in 1984. ![]()
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