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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... night. He listened to the crying of the newborn child once in the night and the feet of the father moving on the dirt floor to help the mother and the little one. In the morning he.
... night with fear” and “bears preyed on the swine.” A lonesome country, settlers few, “about one human being to each square mile,” families two and three miles apart. They had toiled and hacked their way through wilderness when about 16 ...
... night was from fire logs , pine knots , or hog fat . Sarah and Abe went barefoot from late spring till autumn frosts , brought home nuts and wild fruits , watched sometimes in the excitement of their father smoking out a bee tree for ...
... night unconscious . He spoke of it afterward as a mystery of the human 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 ...
... night , he'd tilt a cheer by the chimbly , an ' set on his backbone an ' read . I've seen a feller come in an ' look at him , Abe not knowin ' anybody was round , an ' sneak out agin like a cat , an ' say , ' Well , I'll be darned ...