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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... wanted her for a life companion and, having their license that was issued April 26, 1790, they were, on April 3, 1791, married by the Baptist preacher, the Reverend John Bailey. Lucy Hanks Sparrow proved herself a woman of strengths and ...
... wanted in Kentucky just then. Dennis Hanks took to his feet down the road to the Lincoln cabin. There he saw Nancy Hanks on a bed of poles cleated to a corner of the cabin, under warm bearskins. She turned her dark head from looking at ...
... wanted to , but he was no hand to pitch in like killing snakes . ” John Romine remarked , " Abe Lincoln worked for me didn't love work half as much as his pay . He said to me one day that his father taught him to work , but he never ...
... Wanted - I want to purchase twenty - five likely Negroes , between the ages of 18 and 25 years , male and female , for which I will pay the highest prices in cash . " Again Abraham could see the narrow cobblestoned streets and the women ...
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