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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... spoke prayers more often of hope for the child to come . Perhaps an added dark zeal came in the brief grace Thomas spoke at meals . On February 10, 1807, the child came wellborn and they.
... spokes and hubs , and nearby perhaps a rusty skillet and the bones of horses and men . They had stuck it out and lost . A saying , " The cowards never started and the weak ones died by the way , " was unfair to the strong ones who died ...
... spoke to them her last dim choking words. Death came October 5, 1818, the banners of autumn flaming their crimsons over tall oaks and quiet maples. On a bed of poles cleared to the corner of the cabin, the body of Nancy Hanks Lincoln ...
... 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 came to , saying ...
... spoke of the moon rising, he explained to her it was the earth moving and not the moon—the moon only seemed to rise. Kate was surprised at such knowledge. The years pass and Abe Lincoln grows up, at 17 standing six feet, nearly four ...