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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... looked up to see an Indian standing over him, a shining bangle hanging down over the Indian's shoulder close to the heart. Then Tom saw the Indian's hands clutch upward, saw him double with a groan and crumple to the ground. Mordecai ...
... looked after Nancy. And I remember after the baby was born, Tom came and stood beside the bed and looked down at Nancy lying there, so pale and so tired, and he stood there with that sort of hang- dog look that a man has, sort of guilty ...
... 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 Hanks whipsawed it into planks, planed the ...
... looked up at a strong , large - boned , rosy woman , with a kindly face and eyes , a steady voice , steady ways . From the first she was warm and friendly for Abe's hands to touch . And his hands roved with curiosity over a feather ...
... looked upon as a wizzard . ” School kept at Pigeon Creek when a schoolmaster happened to drift in , usually in winter , and school was out when he drifted away . Andrew Crawford taught Abe in 1820 , James Swaney two years later , and ...