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Sto caricando le informazioni... Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years (1 of 2) (1925)di Carl Sandburg
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. 1060 Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years Volume One, by Carl Sandburg (read 11 Jul 1970) This is the first of six volumes by Sandburg on Lincoln. It takes Lincoln up to about 1850. It is good, but I miss the footnotes and the trappings of a real biography. So I won't go on--now--to volume II. Sandburg is no lawyer--I should read a book on Lincoln the lawyer. But the picture evoked of the early West in Lincoln's time is a strange and poignant one. One wonders how Lincoln could be the great man he was: what elements in him caused it? Even a poet: "My childhood's home I see again And sadden with the view; And still, as memory crowds my brain, There's pleasure in it too. O Memory! thou midway world Twixt earth and paradise, Where things decayed and loved ones lost In dreamy shadows rise." nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Vol. 1 of a 2 vol. set. The author planned composing this book for nearly thirty years. He desired to make a particular portrait of Lincoln, that being a sketch of the country lawyer and prairie politician who was intimate with the settlers of the Knox County neighborhood where the author grew up. Sandburg heard the conversations of men and women who had eaten with Lincoln, given him a bed overnight, heard his jokes and lingo, remembered his silences and his mobile face. Illustrated. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)973.7092History and Geography North America United States Administration of Abraham Lincoln, 1861-1865 Civil WarClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
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In the midst of industry's wheels just starting to turn, slavery was seen as a profitable business. At the same time, at the age of twenty-three, Lincoln’s political wheels were just starting to turn as well. He wasn’t interested in drinking or fishing. He wanted to continue to learn the law. He became a postmaster so he could have access to newspaper. In the first installment of Sandburg’s biography, we learn Lincoln grew into a complicated man with many sides. Lincoln the storyteller, always telling jokes and stories. Lincoln the neighbor, ready to help a friend, stranger, or animal in need. Lincoln the silent and sad, afraid to carry a pocketknife for fear of harming himself. Sandburg quotes Lincoln as once saying, “I stay away because I am conscious I should not know how to behave myself” (p 22). ( )