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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... letters that may have existed . His name stayed unknown to baffle and mystify the seekers who for years searched for records and sought evidence that might bring to light the name of the father of the girl child Nancy Hanks . Lucy ...
... letters and shaping words. He said later that “anywhere and everywhere that lines could be drawn, there he improved his capacity for writing.” He scrawled words with charcoal, he shaped them in the dust, in sand, in snow. Writing had a ...
... letter writer for the family and for neighbors . As he wrote he read the words out loud . He asked questions , " What do you want to say in the letter ? How do you want to say it ? Are you sure that's the best way to say it ? Or do you ...
... letter.” He was elected the next year with two neighbors to serve as a committee of visitors to the Gilead church, and served three years as church trustee. Strict watch was kept on the conduct of members and Tom served on committees to ...
... letters just come , politics , Indians and land titles . Young Abraham Lincoln saw certain of these Christians with a clean burning fire , with inner reckonings that prompted them to silence or action or speech , and they could justify ...