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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... 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.
... seemed to agree that while Abe wasn't " lazy " his 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 ...
... seemed that Abe made books tell him more than they told other people. The other farm boys had gone to school and read The Kentucky Preceptor, but Abe picked out such a question as “Who has the most right to complain, the Indian or the ...
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