Hardcover, 1038 pages
English language
Published Feb. 24, 1998 by Modern Library.
Lincoln (Modern Library)
by Gore Vidal
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An historical novel that describes the presidency of Abraham Lincoln through the eyes of several historical figures including presidential secretary John Hay. Secretary of State William H. Seward, Secretary of the Treasury Salmon Chase, his daughter Kate Chase, U.S. Representative Elihu B. Washburne, and conspirators John Wilkes Booth and David Herold. It focuses on his political and personal struggles, not the Civil War.
Subjects
- Biography: general
- Historical fiction
- POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
- Literature: Classics
- Vidal, Gore - Prose & Criticism
- Fiction - Historical
- American English
- USA
- Presidents
- Historical - General
- Fiction / Historical
- Lincoln, Abraham
- Fiction
- 1809-1865
- Biographical fiction
- Lincoln, Abraham,
- United States