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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... walked two miles up the road to where the Sparrows, Tom and Betsy, lived. Dennis Hanks, the nine-year-old boy adopted by the Sparrows, met Tom at the door. In his slow way of talking Tom Lincoln told them, “Nancy's got a boy baby.” A ...
... walked when school kept and they were not needed at home. In a log schoolhouse with a dirt floor and one door, seated on puncheon benches with no backs, they learned the alphabet A to Z and numbers one to ten. It was called a “blab ...
... walked for his learning , saying later that " all his schooling did not amount to one year . " Abe kept his school sum book sheets as though they might be worth reading again with such rhymes as : Abraham Lincoln is my nam And with my ...
... walked to see John Pitcher , a lawyer at Rockport , nearly 20 miles away , and borrowed a book he heard Pitcher had . A few days later , with his father and Dennis and John Hanks he shucked corn from early daylight till sundown . Then ...
... walked their muddy feet across the ceiling . The stepmother came in , laughed at the foot tracks , told Abe he ought to be spanked - and he cleaned the ceiling so it looked new . Education came to the youth Abe by many ways outside of ...