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

Written 200 years after Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln shared a birthday on February 12, 1809, this insightful account sheds new light on two men who changed the way we think about the meaning of life and death.

Award-winning journalist Adam Gopnik's unique perspective, combined with previously unexplored stories and figures, reveals two men planted firmly at the roots of modern views and liberal values.

• A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism
• Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century
• Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide
• The Table Comes First: Family, France, and the Meaning of Food
• Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
• At the Strangers' Gate: Arrivals in New York
• Adam Gopnik and Malcolm Gladwell: Surveying Mankind from China to Peru
• The Nickel Boys: A Novel
• Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
• Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis