Auraeus solito biography of abraham lincoln by carl sandburg

Account Options Logga in. Skaffa tryckt exemplar. Carl Sandburg. Civil War and history buffs--as well as all lovers of fine writing--will delight in the detail and accuracy of Carl Sandburg's definitive, best-known biography of "Honest Abe. By gleaning every possible reference from history, literature, and popular lore, Sandburg successfully captures not only the legendary president, but also Lincoln the man.

He reveals exactly who Lincoln was, and what forces in his life shaped his personality. More than black-and-white historical photographs and linecuts show Lincoln himself, the places he went, and the people who knew him.

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The Young Legislator. At age 13 he left school to roam the Midwest; he remained on the road for six years, working as a day laborer. After college, he went to Milwaukee, where he worked as a journalist; he also married Lillian Steichen there in During World War I, he served as a foreign correspondent in Stockholm; after the war he returned to Chicago and continued to write about America, especially the common people.

Sandburg's first poems to gain wide recognition appeared in Poetry magazine in Two years later he published his Chicago Poems , and Cornhuskers appeared in Meanwhile, Sandburg set out to become an authority on Abraham Lincoln see Vol. His exhaustive biography of the president, which took many years to complete, appeared as Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years 2 vols.