Abraham Lincoln: The War Years (Four-Volume Set)
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Yellowed
At the crossroads of American destiny stands Abraham Lincoln — and no portrait of the sixteenth president has ever matched the monumental scale, depth, and humanity of Carl Sandburg's Abraham Lincoln: The War Years. Spanning four authoritative volumes, this Pulitzer Prize-winning biography chronicles Lincoln's life from the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861 through his assassination in 1865, immersing the reader in the blood-soaked battlefields, the smoke-filled political chambers, and the profound moral reckonings of a nation tearing itself apart. Sandburg draws on an extraordinary breadth of primary sources — letters, diaries, newspaper accounts, and eyewitness testimony — to reconstruct not just the statesman, but the man: his anguish, his wit, his iron resolve, and his boundless capacity for compassion. Sandburg's prose carries the cadence of poetry and the gravity of history, presenting Lincoln not as a marble monument but as a living, breathing leader who bore the unbearable weight of a fractured republic. The work stands as a towering achievement of American literary biography, illuminating timeless themes of leadership, sacrifice, democratic faith, and the cost of freedom. Sandburg argues, compellingly and without sentimentality, that Lincoln's greatness was forged not in spite of adversity but because of it — leaving the reader to wonder, in our own turbulent times, what such a man would make of the world we have inherited.
Author: Carl Sandburg
Format: Hardback
Published: 1939, Harcourt, Brace and Company
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Yellowed
At the crossroads of American destiny stands Abraham Lincoln — and no portrait of the sixteenth president has ever matched the monumental scale, depth, and humanity of Carl Sandburg's Abraham Lincoln: The War Years. Spanning four authoritative volumes, this Pulitzer Prize-winning biography chronicles Lincoln's life from the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861 through his assassination in 1865, immersing the reader in the blood-soaked battlefields, the smoke-filled political chambers, and the profound moral reckonings of a nation tearing itself apart. Sandburg draws on an extraordinary breadth of primary sources — letters, diaries, newspaper accounts, and eyewitness testimony — to reconstruct not just the statesman, but the man: his anguish, his wit, his iron resolve, and his boundless capacity for compassion. Sandburg's prose carries the cadence of poetry and the gravity of history, presenting Lincoln not as a marble monument but as a living, breathing leader who bore the unbearable weight of a fractured republic. The work stands as a towering achievement of American literary biography, illuminating timeless themes of leadership, sacrifice, democratic faith, and the cost of freedom. Sandburg argues, compellingly and without sentimentality, that Lincoln's greatness was forged not in spite of adversity but because of it — leaving the reader to wonder, in our own turbulent times, what such a man would make of the world we have inherited.