“Lincoln nodded. ‘Let us hope so. Because there is nothing on this earth quite as useless in a war as a general who is running for president. On that subject, I am the world's greatest and saddest authority.’”
In Gore Vidal's Lincoln we meet Lincoln the man and Lincoln the political animal, the president who entered a besieged capital where most of the population supported the South and where even those favoring the Union had serious doubts that the man from Illinois could save it.
New York: Random House, 1984. First Edition (stated), second printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 657 pages. Dust jacket in good condition with edge wear and some creasing. Boards and spine clean with very minimal wear. Binding tight and square. Pages clear. Clean, crisp copy.
