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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... head clamped between two grooved planks; if a prisoner was dead drunk he was laid on his back with his feet fastened in the stocks till he was sober. In 1803 Thomas Lincoln for “the sum of 118 pounds in hand paid” bought a 238-acre ...
... Head arrived on his gray mare. He was a man they rhymed about: His nose is long and his hair is red, And he goes by the name of Jesse Head. A hater of sin , he liked decency and good.
... head from looking at the baby to look at Dennis and threw him a tired, white smile from her mouth and gray eyes. He stood watching the even, quiet breaths of this fresh, soft red baby. “What you goin' to name him, Nancy?” the boy asked ...
... head and heart . Young Abraham had worked as a farm hand and ferry helper for James Taylor , who lived at the mouth of Anderson Creek and operated a ferry across the Ohio River . Here Abe saw steamboats , strings of flatboats loaded ...
... heads in to shore. Strong winds crook the course of the boat, sometimes blowing it ashore; one man must hustle off in a rowboat, tie a hawser to a tree or stump, while another man on the boat has a rope at the check post; and they slow ...