In February 1959, Carl Sandburg gave an address on the occasion of Abraham Lincoln's 150th birthday before the Joint Session of Congress. The Lincoln biographer spoke of the nation's 16th president as a man who is both steel and velvet, who is as hard as rock and soft as drifting...
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." Representing a lifetime of study by the great American poet, Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and...