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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... John Lincoln, one of the many English, Scotch, Irish, German, Dutch settlers who were taking the green hills and slopes of the Shenandoah Valley and putting their plows to unbroken ground long held by the Indians. These Lincolns in ...
... John Daniel, gave bond for a license of marriage between himself and Lucy Hanks. On this same day Lucy Hanks, one of ... John Berry, perhaps the same John Berry who had served on the jury that had indicted one Lucy Hanks. In the ...
... John Bailey. Lucy Hanks Sparrow proved herself a woman of strengths and vitality, of passion for life and brave living. Of her eight children that came she saw to it in those days of little schooling that all of them learned to read and ...
... John Pitcher , a lawyer at Rockport , nearly 20 miles away , and borrowed a book he heard Pitcher had . A few days later , with his father and Dennis and John Hanks he shucked corn from early daylight till sundown . Then after supper he ...
... John D. Johnston, Abe's stepbrother. The day was set, each man with his seconds. The two fighters, stripped to the waist, mauled at each other with bare knuckles. A crowd formed a ring and stood cheering, yelling, hissing, and after a ...