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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... talking Tom Lincoln told them, “Nancy's got a boy baby.” A half-sheepish look was in his eyes, as though maybe more babies were not wanted in Kentucky just then. Dennis Hanks took to his feet down the road to the Lincoln cabin. There he ...
... talk and as he grew bigger how to be a chore boy , to run errands , carry water , fill the woodbox , clean ashes from the fireplace . He learned the feel of blisters on his hands from using a hoe handle on rows of beans , onions , com ...
... talk about it, up and down in the cornfields. When he read in a book about a boat that came near a magnetic rock, and how the magnets in the rock pulled all the nails out of the boat so it went to pieces and the people in the boat found ...
... talk with Squire Pate and made a friend. Afterward on days when no passengers were in sight he sometimes sculled over and watched Squire Pate on “law day” handle cases. James Gentry, with the largest farms in the Pigeon Creek clearings ...
... talking, shouting, roistering, their languages a fascinating jabber to the youths from Indiana. British, Yankee and French faces, Spanish, Mexican, Creole, the occasional free Negro and the frequent slave were on the streets. Gangs of ...