Adam Gopnik on Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin

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WNYC News | Jul 13, 2010

New Yorker staff writer Adam Gopnik talks to WNYC's Leonard Lopate about his new double biography Angels and Ages, which looks at the lives and legacies of Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin. Both men were born 200 years ago.

You can listen to Lopate and Gopnik's complete conversation here.

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