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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... young, and had a baby of my own, and I had helped mother who was quite famous as a granny woman. It was Saturday afternoon when Tom Lincoln sent over and asked me to come. They sent for Nancy's two aunts, Mis' Betsy Sparrow and Mis ...
... young Abe learned to write and to like forming letters and shaping words. He said later that “anywhere and everywhere that lines could be drawn, there he improved his capacity for writing.” He scrawled words with charcoal, he shaped ...
... young Abe, now nearly eight, erected a cabin 18 by 20 feet, with a loft. Abe later wrote that he “though very young, was large of his age, and had an axe put into his hands at once; and was almost constantly handling that most useful ...
... Young Countrymen . Books lighted lamps in the dark rooms of his gloomy hours . When John Hanks , a cousin of Nancy Hanks , came to live with them about 1823 , there were nine persons sleeping , eating , washing , mending , dressing and ...
... young men , both alarmed at this , sprang out of bed and ran with such violence against each other they came near knocking each other down . The tumult gave evidence to those below that the mistake was certain . At last they all came ...