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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... telling of valleys there rich with black land and blue grass, game and fish, tall timber and clear running waters. It called to him, that country Boone talked about, where land was 40 cents an acre. Abraham Lincoln sold his farm; they ...
... tell “the granny woman,” Aunt Peggy Walters, that Nancy would need help soon. On the morning of February 12, a Sunday, the granny woman was at the cabin. And she and Tom Lincoln and the moaning Nancy Hanks welcomed into a world of ...
... 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 Negro?” and would talk about ...
... tell her mother ; on Abe's advice she told her mother the whole truth . When Abe's sister Sarah , a year after marrying Aaron Grigsby , died in childbirth in 1828 , it was Sarah Bush Lincoln who spoke comfort to the nearly 19 - year ...
... tell about the family that had moved so often their chickens knew the signs of another moving; the chickens would walk up to the mover, stretch flat on the ground, and put their feet up to be tied for the next wagon trip. Tom and Sarah ...