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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... feel of blisters on his hands from using a hoe handle on rows of beans , onions , com , potatoes . He ducked out of the way of the heels of the stallion and two brood mares his father kept and paid taxes on . That Knob Creek farm in ...
... feeling; the most he had ever earned was 31 cents a day. And when one of the half-dollars slipped from him and sank in the river, that too gave him a new feeling. One day, at a signal from the Kentucky shore, Lincoln rowed across. Two ...
... feel of old times and customs, of mossy traditions, none of the raw and new as seen in Indiana. Lincoln and Allen Gentry, heading for home after three months, rode an elegant steamboat up the Mississippi, the fare paid by James Gentry ...
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