Abraham Lincoln, Carl Sandburg
Abraham Lincoln, Carl Sandburg
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Abraham Lincoln
The Prairie Years and The War Years

Author: Carl Sandburg

Narrator: Arthur Morey

Unabridged: 44 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/04/2013

Synopsis

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

About Carl Sandburg

Carl Sandburg was twice awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the first for History in 1940 for his six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln, and the second for Poetry in 1951 for his Complete Poems. Born in Illinois of Swedish immigrant parents, Sandburg worked early in a wide variety of jobs, ranging from shoeshine-boy, milkman, fireman, and farmhand, to a soldier in the Spanish-American War. After college he went on to become a newspaperman, a political organizer, a collector of folk songs, author of children’s books, lecturer, poet and historian. The son of a man who could not write his own name, Carl Sandburg went on to write over thirty books and earned the title in America of “The Poet of the People.”

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jim on August 21, 2024

I enjoyed this classic biography of our 16th President, Abraham Lincoln. Written by Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) and filled with anecdotes, this book highlights Lincoln as a man of the common people, who had an unshakable belief in democracy, and who rose to greatness in facing the supreme crisis of th......more

Goodreads review by RYD on January 17, 2013

It is easy to see why Carl Sandburg's account of Abraham Lincoln is so beloved, since it focuses so much on Lincoln the folk hero. I enjoyed this book a lot, though its style (kind of a Thomas Wolfe rip off) got on my nerves after a while. Two Lincoln anecdotes I highlighted, which give a good sense......more

Goodreads review by Florence on December 25, 2012

Abraham Lincoln lived before he became a politician. He farmed, he worked on the Mississippi River hauling freight, he labored with ordinary people. He truly was born in a cabin with a dirt floor. He had no benefit of an education, but devoured every book that he could get his hands on, eventually b......more

Goodreads review by Steven on December 11, 2009

This is a biography of Lincoln by the esteemed poet Carl Sandburg. I was born just up the road, US Route 34 (in Kewanee), from his home town of Galesburg, Illinois. Thus, I have always had a soft spot for this version of Lincoln's life As a poet, Sandburg's version tends to be more epic and mythical......more

Goodreads review by Larry on July 31, 2016

I finished listening to this audible book with tears in my eyes. I suffered from the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and I gloried in the prose of Carl Sandburg. Sandburg noted that when Lincoln died he became a legend surrounded by mythology. And so this book did not seem so much to be a compilati......more

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