Abraham Lincoln (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Carl Sandburg
- First Published: 1926
- Type of Work: Biography
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Nineteenth century, Civil War, Elections, Assassination, Democracy, Presidents, Heads of state, Debates or debating
Critical Evaluation:
Carl Sandburg’s six-volume Abraham Lincoln is a monumental work on a monumental theme: the life, works, and times of a symbolic American of history and legend. Sandburg sets Lincoln against a tremendous movement of history as he tells simultaneously, on different levels, the story of a man, a war, an age, and a people. In the end the qualities that set this work apart seem appropriate and significant. Lincoln, that ungainly, complex, humorous, melancholy, and sadly serene man, was also one of the great solitaries.
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