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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... and feed , while she asked , “ Here we come- where from ? " If Lucy was married when Nancy was born it seemed that her husband either died and she became a widow or he lived and stayed on in Virginia or elsewhere. In.
... asked him to tell “the granny woman,” Aunt Peggy Walters, that Nancy would need help soon. On the morning of February 12, a Sunday, the granny woman was at the cabin. And she and Tom Lincoln and the moaning Nancy Hanks welcomed into a ...
... asked if he could hold the baby. Nancy, as she passed the little one into Dennis' arms, said, “Be keerful, Dennis, fur you air the fust boy he's ever seen.” Dennis swung the baby back and forth, keeping up a chatter about how tickled he ...
... asked the solemn question, “The Union? What is the Union?” A wagon one day late in 1817 brought into the Lincoln clearing their good Kentucky neighbors Tom and Betsy Sparrow and the odd quizzical 17-year-old Dennis Friend Hanks. For ...
... Asked by Farmer James Taylor if he could kill a hog, Abe answered, “If you will risk the hog I'll risk myself.” He put barefoot boys to wading in a mud puddle near the horse trough, picked them up one by one , carried them to.