Sandburg abraham lincoln biography

Volumes 3–6 of Sanburg's Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln: The War Years encompasses volumes three through six of Carl Sandburg's six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln; these volumes focus particularly on the American Civil War period. The first two volumes, Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years, were published in 1926 and cover the period from Lincoln's birth through his inauguration as president.

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The final four volumes were published together in 1939, and won the 1940 Pulitzer Prize for History.^[1][2][3]

Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and Abraham Lincoln: The War Years are collectively considered by many to be "the best-selling, most widely read, and most influential book[s] about Lincoln."^[4] The books have been through many editions, including a one-volume edition in 1954 prepared by Sandburg.

Sandburg's Lincoln scholarship, primarily in these volumes, had an enormous impact on the popular view of Sandburg's Lincoln - Carl Sandburg Home National Historic ... KAJAW