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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... things, came keen that summer to Nancy Hanks. The summer stars that year shook out pain and warning, strange and bittersweet laughters, for Nancy Hanks. The same year saw Tom Lincoln's family moved to his land on the South Fork of Nolin ...
... things I want to know are in books ; my best friend is the man who'll git me a book I ain't read . " One fall afternoon he walked to see John Pitcher , a lawyer at Rockport , nearly 20 miles away , and borrowed a book he heard Pitcher ...
... things should be done decently and in order . Their door strings were out to sinners deep in mire , to scorners seemingly past all redemption ; the Jesus who lived with lawbreakers , thieves , lepers crying " Unclean ! " was an ...
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