Abraham Lincoln the Prairie Years 1926

1926. Vol. 2 of a 2 vol. set. The author planned composing this book for nearly thirty years. He desired to make a particular portrait of Lincoln, that being a sketch of the country lawyer and prairie politician who was intimate with the settlers of the Knox County neighborhood where the author grew up. Sandburg heard the conversations of men and women who had eaten with Lincoln, given him a bed overnight, heard his jokes and lingo, remembered his silences and his mobile face. Illustrated. Volume 1 ISBN 076614397X.Sandburg, Carl is the author of 'Abraham Lincoln the Prairie Years 1926' with ISBN 9780766146099 and ISBN 076614609X.