The Lincoln Lords by Cameron Hawley (1960)

The Lincoln Lords
by Cameron Hawley
Publisher:  Little, Brown and Company
Copyright:  1960
Book Club Edition

The Lincoln Lords is an extraordinary novel.  With the same narrative skill that made Executive Suite and Cash McCall such wonderfully readable books, Cameron Hawley now achieves the full dimension of a truly major work.  Many will read The Lincoln Lords for the sheer enjoyment of a fascinating story -- few will fail to recognize that it is an incisively penetrating study of our life and times.  This is a truly rewarding novel, a book that no perceptive reader will soon forget.

Again, Cameron Hawley displays his unique ability to make every reader an on-the-spot participant in the dramatic world of business, but the Coastal Foods Company is no more than a background for this big novel.  In its simplest outline, The Lincoln Lords is the story of Lincoln and Maggie Lord, the story of a marriage, deeply probing and warmly compassionate, richly detailed, intimately revealing.

Lincoln Lord is one of those handsome, likable, and prepossessing men who, today, are heading so many of the organizations and institutions that control our lives.  He has shaped his whole career to the belief, so widely held, that "getting along with people" is the most important thing in the world.  Outwardly, it has worked.  He has gone up and up from one big job to another, the president of five different companies during the past ten years -- until, as the story opens, he finds himself suddenly forced to reappraise his whole image of success.

Is he, as his detractors claim, nothing but a front man with no real ability except the talent to sell himself?  -- a brain-picker who parasitically profits from other men's ideas? -- a phone who gets by only because of the magic of his personality?  Or does he play a vital role in our complex modern society -- the go-between who bridges the gap between the world of ideas and the world of action?

It is not possible to understand Lincoln Lord until you see behind his public mask -- and Maggie Lord, his wife, is the only person who ever has.  That's why she is, in so many ways, the key character of this powerful story.  Every wife who has ever found herself emotionally torn by secret doubts and fears as she has tried to help advance her husband's career, will feel a strong kinship to Maggie Lord -- and she will prove no less revealing to every husband who has ever wondered what is really going on in his wife's mind.

Many other people come into this intensely dramatic novel, all of them brought to life by Cameron Hawley's talent for giving flesh and blood reality to every character he creates.  Beyond all doubt, The Lincoln Lords is his most important book, a bold contribution to a better understanding of ourselves, our friends and families -- and, perhaps, our whole modern civilization.

Condition:  Used.  Hardcover.  Dust cover is discolored and shows wear, creasing and tears in the edges.  Pages are tanning and darkening from age.  Previous owner's name is blacked out on the front endpaper with date written underneath.  There's an envelope pasted to the front endpaper as a way to keep track of her books.

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