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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... mind sometimes invented more than he saw or 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 ...
... mind , and later wrote of himself , “ In his tenth year he was kicked by a horse , and apparantly killed for a time . " Instead of dying , as was half expected , he came to , saying , “ You old hussy , " thus finishing what he started ...
... mind was often on books to the neglect of work . A neighbor woman sized him up , " He could work when he wanted to , but he was no hand to pitch in like killing snakes . ” John Romine remarked , " Abe Lincoln worked for me didn't love ...
... mind or body . He smoked enough tobacco to learn he wouldn't care for it . He heard rollicking and bawdy verses and songs and kept some of them for their earthy flavor and sometimes meaningful intentions . His stepmother was a rich ...
... mind and then began babbling week in and week out the droolings of a disordered brain - time had done it without warning . On both man and the animals , time and death had their way . In a single week , the milk sick had taken four milk ...