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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... friend Daniel Boone, coming back from trips to Kentucky, had been telling of valleys there rich with black land and blue grass, game and fish, tall timber and clear running waters. It called to him, that country Boone talked about ...
... friends in Washington County and the time was right to go to a wedding, what with spring planting and corn plowing over and the hay harvest yet to come. Nancy Hanks was at home in the big double log cabin of the Berrys. She had done ...
... Friend. I was there before them, and we all had quite a spell to wait, and we got everything ready. Nancy had a good feather-bed under her; it wasn't a goose-feather bed, hardly anyone had that kind then, but good hen feathers. And she ...
... Friend Hanks. For some years Dennis would be a chum of Abe's and on occasion would make free to say, “I am base born,” explaining that his mother bore him before she married one Levi Hall. The Sparrows were to live in the Lincoln pole ...
... friend is the man who'll git me a book I ain't read . " One fall afternoon he walked to see John Pitcher , a lawyer at Rockport , nearly 20 miles away , and borrowed a book he heard Pitcher had . A few days later , with his father and ...