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- Abraham Lincoln-The Prairie Years
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- (FEBRUARY 15, 1926)
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- Abraham Lincoln-The Prairie Years--Carl Sandburg. Lord
- Charnwood's Lincoln was a foreign statesman. Ida Tarbell saw a
- noble countryman and gave him his just due. Nathaniel
- Stephenson, the most perceptive biographer before Sandburg,
- wrote in analytical prose. Now there is the Lincoln of a
- vagabond poet of the cornlands where Lincoln lived. It is a
- "stalking and elusive" human being, brought out of all the
- biographies, out of unexamined files of newspapers and drawers
- of letters, out of old people's memories and reconstructed
- conversations, out of Lincoln's personalia and the revisited
- places off earth that knew him, by a poet who can feel all the
- coarse and fine stuff that men are made of, feel the broad,
- unfinished patterns that great men take.
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