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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... 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 name. Thomas Lincoln at 19 had ...
... face and began crying with no letup. Dennis turned to Betsy Sparrow, handed her the baby and said, “Aunt, take him! He'll never come to much.” Thus the birthday scene reported years later by Dennis Hanks whose nimble mind sometimes ...
... face and made their first acquaintance with the look of death in a personal grief in their own one-room cabin. Four miles a day Sarah and Abe walked when school kept and they were not needed at home. In a log schoolhouse with a dirt ...
... face and 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 ...
... faces of open sky and weather in changing seasons, with that individual one-man instrument, the ax. Silence found him for her own. In the making of him, the element of silence was immense. On a misunderstanding one time between Lincoln ...