![]() Johnson stipulated for dogs who walk on their hind legs and women who preach, not to require the thing be done well but applaud that it is done at all. One is tempted to judge the effort by the standard Dr. Whatever its cause, Vidal's new daring is welcome, and his abilities in most of the technical prerequisites of fiction writing are not negligible. But, if admirable is not the word, there is surely something wondrous in the audacity of the creator of Myra Breckenridge taking on the job of depicting the two presidencies of Lincoln. ![]() ![]() To say Gore Vidal's recent novel fails nobly may go too far. So trivial are the projects today's novelists set themselves that producing a noble failure in any large-scale political conception would raise the stakes of current American literature. ![]() A review of Lincoln : A novel, by Gore Vidalįirst Citizen: You have deserved nobly of your country and you have not deserved nobly. ![]()
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