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Abraham Lincoln
- 640 pages · about 11 hours
- First published 1926
- 74 editions
- Free to read
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1 About this book
This definitive, single-volume edition of the Pulitzer Prize–winning biography delivers “a Lincoln whom no other man . . . could have given us” (New York Herald Tribune Book Review).
Celebrated for his vivid depictions of the nineteenth-century American Midwest, Carl Sandburg brings unique insight to the life of Abraham Lincoln in this distinguished biography. He captures both the man who grew up on the Indiana prairie and the president who held the country together through the turbulence and tragedy of the Civil War.
Based on a lifetime of research, Sandburg’s biographywas originally published as a monumental, six-volume study. The author later distilled the work down to this single-volume edition that is considered by many to be his greatest work of nonfiction.
Good for readers who want: a true life story, history, and a long read.
- Biography
- History
- History United States
- United states, history
- Presidents
- 1861-1865 United States Civil War
- Biographies
- Hommes d'État
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