Abraham Lincoln the Prairie Years Sandburg, Carl

(Biography of Abraham Lincoln.)

The Prairie Years’ covers Lincoln’s life from his birth to his first inauguration. In a real sense, this is the definitive biography of Lincoln, illustrated with photographs and reproductions of paintings, drawings and sketches. Carl Sandburg felt a close tie to Abraham Lincoln because of similar childhood experiences. Sandburg’s and Lincoln’s youths had not been easy. Their understanding of the common man was mutual. Each in his own lifetime would think of himself as a common man, a struggler from among ordinary people, according to one historian. Sandburg put it this way: "There’s a certain level of human existence below which one must sometime have lived if one is to really know the ways of the masses." Reviewers from all over the world called Sandburg’s book a classic.

604 pages (some pages bottoms worn) Hardback no jacket faded spine Published by New York Harcourt, Brace and Company [1926] 215mm x 140mm