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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... writing “garden,” meaning guardian. The six Negro slaves owned by Richard Berry were busy getting ready the food and “fixins” to follow the wedding ceremony. The Reverend Jesse Head arrived on his gray mare. He was a man they rhymed ...
... writing.” He scrawled words with charcoal, he shaped them in the dust, in sand, in snow. Writing had a fascination for him. Tom Lincoln worked hard and had a reputation for paying his debts. One year he was appointed a “road surveyor ...
... writing more. Dennis Hanks said, “There's suthin' peculiarsome about Abe.” It seemed that Abe made books tell him more than they told other people. The other farm boys had gone to school and read The Kentucky Preceptor, but Abe picked ...
... writer for the family and for neighbors . As he wrote he read the words out loud . He asked questions , " What do you want to say in the letter ? How do you want to say it ? Are you sure that's the best way to say it ? Or do you think ...
... writing titled " The Chronicles of Reuben , " which had many in the neighborhood tittering if not laughing out loud at the Grigsbys . It told of what a sumptuous affair it was , with music of harps , viols , rams ' horns , and ...