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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... Washington County. Betweenwhiles he learned the carpenter's trade and cabinetmaking. In his full growth he was about five feet nine, weighed about 185 pounds, his muscles and ribs close-knit. His dark hazel eyes looked out from a round ...
... Washington County . Nancy Hanks , the bride - to - be , was a daughter of Lucy Hanks and was sometimes called Nancy Sparrow as though she was an adopted daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Sparrow whose house was her home . Lucy Hanks had ...
... Washington. Since his father's death in 1789 he had been caring for his widowed mother, sister and younger brother. On April 26, 1790, Henry Sparrow, with a brother-in-law, John Daniel, gave bond for a license of marriage between ...
... Washington County saw men and women on horseback arriving for the wedding of 28-year-old Thomas Lincoln and 22-year-old Nancy Hanks. The groom was wearing his fancy beaver hat, a new black suit, his new silk suspenders. The bride's ...
... Washington , with Curious Anecdotes , Equally Honorable to Himself and Exemplary to His Young Countrymen . Books lighted lamps in the dark rooms of his gloomy hours . When John Hanks , a cousin of Nancy Hanks , came to live with them ...