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Sandburg's popular multivolume biography Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years, 2 vols. (1926) and Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, 4 vols. (1939) are collectively "the best-selling, most widely read, and most influential book[s] about Lincoln." [22] The books have been through many editions, including a one-volume edition in 1954 prepared by Sandburg.
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 ...
In 2005, C. A. Tripp's book, The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln, was posthumously published. Tripp was a sex researcher, a protégé of Alfred Kinsey, and was gay. He began writing The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln with Philip Nobile, but they had a falling out. Nobile later accused Tripp's book of being fraudulent and distorted.
Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a play written by the American playwright Robert E. Sherwood in 1938, based principally on the 1926 biography Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years by Carl Sandburg. The play, in three acts, covers the life of President Abraham Lincoln from his childhood through his final speech in Illinois before he left for Washington.
A Lincoln Preface (Harcourt Brace, 1953). Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years (Harcourt Brace, 1954). The Letters of Carl Sandburg (Harcourt Brace, 1968). The Chicago Race Riots of 1919 (Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1969). Ever the Winds of Chance (University of Illinois Press, 1983). Carl Sandburg at the Movies (Scarecrow Press ...
This bibliography of Abraham Lincoln is a comprehensive list of written and published works about or by Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States.In terms of primary sources containing Lincoln's letters and writings, scholars rely on The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, edited by Roy Basler, and others. [1]
Debates over Abraham Lincoln's private life have lingered for years, but the upcoming documentary Lover of Men, hitting theaters Sept. 6, takes the conversation to new heights.. Using historical ...
John Lincoln gave 210 acres of prime Virginia land to his first son, Captain Abraham Lincoln (1744–1786), [5] [7] a veteran of the American Revolutionary War.In 1770, Abraham married Bathsheba Herring (c. 1742–1836), who was born in Rockingham County, Virginia.