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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... lived in different places in Kentucky with kith and kin, sometimes hiring out to farmers, mostly in Washington County. Betweenwhiles he learned the carpenter's trade and cabinetmaking. In his full growth he was about five feet nine ...
... breast and feed , while she asked , “ Here we come- where from ? " If Lucy was married when Nancy was born it seemed that her husband either died and she became a widow or he lived and stayed on in Virginia or elsewhere. In.
The Prairie Years Carl Sandburg. he lived and stayed on in Virginia or elsewhere. In either case she and their child had to get along as best they could without him. Of how and where she lived in the years she was raising Nancy not much ...
... lived. Dennis Hanks, the nine-year-old boy adopted by the Sparrows, met Tom at the door. In his slow way of talking Tom Lincoln told them, “Nancy's got a boy baby.” A half-sheepish look was in his eyes, as though maybe more babies were ...
... lived with lawbreakers , thieves , lepers crying " Unclean ! " was an instrument and a light vivifying into everyday use the abstractions behind the words " malice , " " mercy , " " charity . " They met understanding from the solemn ...