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    Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and The War Years
    Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and The War Years
    Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and The War Years
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    Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and The War Years

    Written by Carl Sandburg

    Narrated by Arthur Morey

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    About this audiobook

    “A Lincoln whom no other man than Carl Sandburg could have given us.” —Mark Van Doren, New York Herald Tribune Book Review

    Originally published in six volumes, which sold more than one million copies, Carl Sandburg’s Abraham Lincoln was praised as the most noteworthy historical biography of Sandburg’s generation. He later distilled this monumental work into one volume that critics and readers alike consider his greatest work of nonfiction, as well as the most distinguished, authoritative biography of Lincoln ever published.

    Growing up in an Illinois prairie town, Sandburg listened to stories of old-timers who had known Lincoln. By the time this single-volume edition was competed, he had spent a lifetime studying, researching, and writing about our sixteenth president. His extraordinary portrait brings fully to life the country lawyer who would become one of the most influential and beloved presidents of the American republic.

    Additional information about the author can be found at: http://www.nps.gov/carl.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateJun 4, 2013
    ISBN9781480502949
    Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and The War Years
    Author

    Carl Sandburg

    Carl Sandburg was an American poet, biographer, journalist, and editor. He is the recipient of three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln. During his lifetime, Sandburg was widely regarded as “a major figure in contemporary literature,” especially for his volumes of collected verse, including Chicago Poems (1916), Cornhuskers (1918), and Smoke and Steel (1920). He enjoyed “unrivaled appeal as a poet in his day, perhaps because the breadth of his experiences connected him with so many strands of American life,” and, upon his death in 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson said about the writer: “Carl Sandburg was more than the voice of America, more than the poet of its strength and genius. He was America.”

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    • 5/5
      This book has been on my shelf for years and I've just never gotten around to it. I was not expecting much. I was very surprised. Joyfully surprised. To say this was better than I had hoped would be an understatement. After completing this book I feel like I know the man. It was also very cool to read about a distant relative of mine (Nancy Hanks).The part leading up to the assassination through his death was incredibly well done. I found myself near tears a half dozen times over the course of the final 40-50 pages. The sense of fatigue that Lincoln felt during his presidency was astonishing and after completing the book, David Locke's words remain in my mind. "I saw him, or what was mortal of him in his coffin. The face had an expression of absolute content, of relief, at throwing off a burden such as few men have been called upon to bear - a burden which few men could have born... Wilkes Booth did Abraham Lincoln the greatest service man could possibly do for him - he gave him peace."
    • 5/5
      Wow, I feel like a better person having experienced this book. This is the most thourough and most human picture of Abraham Lincoln. I laughed. I cried. I raged and mourned. It was so beautiful. I loved every single moment of it.
    • 4/5
      The prose is lush and this single volume was edited down from six volumes in total. But Lincoln is the chief ornament of American civilization so far and I enjoyed a very reliable biography. Read with the Kearns work on the political Lincoln, I think it is time well spent.
    • 5/5
      A wonderful work. As a reader, I came to appreciate Lincoln the man through the skill of Sandburg. Sandburg has so well erased his fingerprints from the biography that you are reading. Instead you are watching the development of character in the man who became arguably the greatest of Americans.
    • 5/5
      Fascinating read from beginning to end
    • 5/5
      Classic biography; extremely well written. A joy to read.
    • 5/5
      Best book I have ever read.
    • 4/5
      I read these in high school before I realized there was any controversy about Lincoln and his administration. Perhaps I should go back
    • 4/5
      Linclon became president during an extremely difficult time. This biography describes his strengths (vision, persistance) as well as his weaknesses (depression, emotionality). The book went through Lincoln's background (The Prairie Years) and detailed the Civil War (The War Years). Excellent book for the historian.
    • 4/5
      Finally! I finished it. It was a very good book or I could not have stuck with it to the end. There were no cliff-hanger chapters, no suspense or mystery or adventure. Just a lot of good writing about a man whom I admire all the more now that I know some of his foibles. This told much more of his greatness, but as a man, not a legend. One can't help wondering why he had to die, what might have happened if he hadn't. Useless to ponder, but still one does. Biography