![]() The academy visitors center offers a single squashed-penny design. Lincoln is the cornerstone of Gore Vidals fictional American chronicle, which includes. ![]() actually in the hospital of the military academy, where his father was an instructor. Read Lincoln A Novel by Gore Vidal available from Rakuten Kobo. The made-for-TV movie of Vidal's "Lincoln," with Sam Waterston and Mary Tyler Moore, was nominated for seven Emmys. But then, Lincoln himself was most powerful when he was brief, as the astonishing Gettysburg address shows." Bill Finnegan Producer David Roessell Producer Ernest Kinoy Writer Gore Vidal Writer. "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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