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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 59
... eyes looked out from a round face, from under coarse black hair. He could be short-spoken or reel off sayings, yams, jokes. He made a reputation as a storyteller. He had little or no time for books, could read some, and could sign his ...
... eyes, as though maybe more babies were not wanted in Kentucky just then. Dennis Hanks took to his feet down the road to the Lincoln cabin. There he saw Nancy Hanks on a bed of poles cleated to a corner of the cabin, under warm bearskins ...
... eyes , a steady voice , steady ways . From the first she was warm and friendly for Abe's hands to touch . And his hands roved with curiosity over a feather pillow and a feather mattress . The one - room cabin now sheltered eight people ...
... eyes sweeping the circle of the crowd he challenged, “If any of you want to try it, come on and whet your horns.” Wild fist-fighting came and for months around the store in Gentryville they argued about which gang whipped the other ...
... eyes. Some families had prayers in the morning on arising, grace at breakfast, noon prayers and grace at dinner, grace at supper and evening prayers at bedtime. In those households, the manger at Bethlehem was a white miracle, the black ...