This paper discusses "Lincoln" by Gore Vidal. The character of President Lincoln tested from tribulations of the war years. This book discusses the residents of Washington, his wife Mary, and political rivals. Gore Vidal is America's most controversial writer. Gore Vidal, has made a lifetime out of examining America's exalted impulses and has through two dozen novels and hundreds of essays debated tempestuously that the U.S. should retreat back to its more Jeffersonian roots, that it should stop interfering in the affairs of other nations and the private affairs of its own citizens.
