Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie YearsThis definitive, single-volume edition of the Pulitzer Prize–winning biography delivers “a Lincoln whom no other man . . . could have given us” (New York Herald Tribune Book Review). Celebrated for his vivid depictions of the nineteenth-century American Midwest, Carl Sandburg brings unique insight to the life of Abraham Lincoln in this distinguished biography. He captures both the man who grew up on the Indiana prairie and the president who held the country together through the turbulence and tragedy of the Civil War. Based on a lifetime of research, Sandburg’s biographywas originally published as a monumental, six-volume study. The author later distilled the work down to this single-volume edition that is considered by many to be his greatest work of nonfiction. |
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... house was her home . Lucy Hanks had welcomed her child Nancy into life in Virginia about 1784. The name of the child's father seems to have vanished from any documents or letters that may have existed . His name stayed unknown to baffle ...
... house of the widow Sarah Bush Johnston . They said he argued straight - out : " I have no wife and you no husband . I came a - purpose to marry you . I knowed you from a gal and you knowed me from a boy . I've no time to lose ; and if ...
... house at night , he'd tilt a cheer by the chimbly , an ' set on his backbone an ' read . I've seen a feller come in an ' look at him , Abe not knowin ' anybody was round , an ' sneak out agin like a cat , an ' say , ' Well , I'll be ...
... house-raisings, logrollings, cornhuskings, hog killings. He found he was fast and strong against other boys in sports. He earned board, clothes and lodgings, sometimes, working for a neighbor farmer. Often Abe worked alone in the ...
... house upside down , and walked their muddy feet across the ceiling . The stepmother came in , laughed at the foot tracks , told Abe he ought to be spanked - and he cleaned the ceiling so it looked new . Education came to the youth Abe ...