Lincoln: A Novel by Gore Vidal. The Modern Library. Hardcover​​

Lincoln: A Novel by Gore Vidal • The Modern Library • Hardcover • 1,038 Pages Condition: Excellent / Minor creasing & tears on dust-jacket. Contents (other than the dust-jacket) is in Excellent Plus condition. ————————————————————— Gore Vidal's Lincoln opens early on a frozen winter morning in 1861, when President-elect Lincoln slips into Washington, flanked by two bodyguards. The future president is in disguise, for there is talk of a plot to murder him. During the next four years there will be numerous other plots to murder this man who has sworn to unite a disintegrating nation. In this profoundly moving novel, a work of epic proportions and intense human sympathy, Lincoln is observed by his loved ones and his rivals. The cast of characters includes politicians, generals, White House aides, newspapermen, North and South conspirators, amiably evil bankers, and a wife slowly going mad. Vidal's portrait of the president is at once intimate and monumental, stark and complex, drawn with the wit, grace, and authority of one of our greatest historical novelists. * Includes a New Introduction By the Author —————————————————————————— REVIEW "A portrait of America's great president that is at once intimate and public, stark and complex, and that will become for future generations the living Lincoln, the definitive Lincoln. . . . Richly entertaining . . . history lessons with the blood still hot." —— The Washington Post