Angels and Ages: A Short Book about Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life by Adam Gopnik

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

Adam Gopnik

211 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction biography history science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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"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 eve...

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