Lincoln's loving but mentally decomposing wife, his view from the White House on slavery and America's bloodiest war, and his own, fierce personal ambition: all are portrayed with a vibrancy and an urgency that almost belies what they have now become ? history itself.

Yet gradually Lincoln the towering leader of deep vision emerges in a Washington engulfed by fear, greed and the horrors of the Civil War. People in this novel are not averse to turning up, getting drunk, and regaling the reader with details of Lincoln's whoring activities and his seemingly inexhaustible supply of folksy stories. Observed alternately by his loved ones, his rivals and his future assassins, Lincoln at first appears as an inept and naive backwoods lawyer. In the hazardous fictional terrain of his historical novels, Gore Vidal is never especially kind. Yet in this brilliantly realised study of Abraham Lincoln, he paints a surprising and near-heroic picture of the man who led America through four of the most divisive and dangerous years of the nation's history. Lincoln : Number 2 in series, Paperback / softback Book.

Chuck Diering Michael Broadway Mike Lincoln Jeff Bridich Ray Olemdo Ryan. Lincoln transcends the egotistic preoccupation with power. In the hazardous fictional terrain of his historical novels, Gore Vidal is never especially kind to American history in general, or to its icons in particular. Long before the global warming thing, just a few years after Al Gore invented. Lincoln is Henry IV being cauterized of personal appetite, even Gore Vidal abjuring the eccentricities of his own famous style.

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