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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... girl child Nancy Hanks . Lucy traveled to Kentucky carrying what was to her a precious bundle . She was perhaps 19 when she made this trip . She could toss her bundle into the air against a far , hazy line of blue mountains , catch it ...
... girl there, two years old, Sarah, went to sleep before much of anything happened. “Nancy had about as hard a time as most women, I reckon, easier than some and maybe harder than a few. The baby was born just about sunup, on Sunday ...
... girls following , and by the code of decent folk no one was abashed . Dennis and Abe climbed on pegs to the loft for their sleep and liked it when later the logs were chinked against the rain or snow coming in on them . Dennis said ...
... girl, Kate Roby, with their bare feet in the creek, and she spoke of the moon rising, he explained to her it was the earth moving and not the moon—the moon only seemed to rise. Kate was surprised at such knowledge. The years pass and ...
... girls from 10 to 18 years old , a woman 24 , a very valuable woman 25 , with three very likely children , " while buyers indicated after the manner of one : " Wanted - I want to purchase twenty - five likely Negroes , between the ages ...