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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... he was working in a field with his three sons, and they saw him in a spasm of pain fall to the ground, just after the boys had heard a rifle shot and the whine of a bullet. The boys yelled to each other, “Indians!” Chapter 1 ...
... heard the bullet plug its hole into the red man. Thomas Lincoln, while growing up, lived in different places in Kentucky with kith and kin, sometimes hiring out to farmers, mostly in Washington County. Betweenwhiles he learned the ...
... heard. Peggy Walters, too, years later, gave the scene as her memory served: “I was twenty years old, then, and helping to bring a baby into the world was more of an event to me than it became afterward. But I was married young, and had ...
... heard only their own whispers answering, she looked as though new secrets had come to her in place of the old secrets given up with the breath of life. Tom Lincoln took a log left over from the building of the cabin, and he and Dennis ...
... heard Abe saying , " The things I want to know are in books ; my best 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 ...