Darwin & Lincoln: Further Reading

CHARLES DARWIN

"From So Simple a Beginning: Darwin's Four Great Books," edited and with an introduction by E. O. Wilson: Includes the Beagle log and the original version of "The Origin of Species," uncluttered by his responses to critics.

"Charles Darwin," by Janet Browne, in two volumes, "Voyaging" and "The Power of Place": If you don't know Darwin by the time you finish this biography, it's not the author's fault.

"The Reluctant Mr. Darwin," by David Quammen: Probably the most accessible intellectual biography of Darwin available.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

"Lincoln: Speeches and Writing 1859-1865": The Library of America's Indispensable collection—you admire him for the speeches; you like him for the letters.

"Lincoln," by David Herbert Donald: Exhaustive but never tedious biography not likely to be surpassed.

"Lincoln's Sword," by Douglas L. Wilson: An endlessly illuminating analysis of the best writer to ever sit in the White House—and how he just got better.

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