In this captivating double life, Adam Gopnik searches for the men behind
the icons of emancipation and evolution. Born by cosmic coincidence on
the same day in 1809 and separated by an ocean, Lincoln and Darwin
coauthored our sense of history and our understanding of man's place in
the world. Here Gopnik reveals these two men as they really were: family
men and social climbers, ambitious manipulators and courageous
adventurers, grieving parents and brilliant scholars. Above all we see
them as thinkers and writers, making and witnessing the great changes in
thought that mark truly modern times.