Dec 30, 2009

Abraham Lincoln | Abraham Lincoln

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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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