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    Cover of Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln

    Carl Sandburg

    This definitive, single-volume edition of the Pulitzer Prize–winning biography delivers “a Lincoln whom no other man... could have given us” (New York Herald Tribune Book Review). Celebrated for his vivid depictions of the nineteenth-century American Midwest, Carl Sandburg brings unique insight to the life of Abraham Lincoln in this distinguished biography. He captures both the man who grew up on the Indiana prairie and the president who held the country together through the turbulence and tragedy of the Civil War. Based on a lifetime of research, Sandburg’s biographywas originally published as a monumental, six-volume study. The author later distilled the work down to this single-volume edition that is considered by many to be his greatest work of nonfiction.

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    2recommend
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    2021–2023years
    100% recommend

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    202120222023

    What Hacker News says

    1. woodruffwJan 2023
      If you like Caro’s approach to biography, I suggest Carl Sandburg’s biography of Abraham Lincoln.

      Sandburg is much better known for his poetry, but I found his style and attention to detail engrossing in the same way that Caro usually is.

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    2. chernevikDec 2021
      A few:

      "The Once and Future King", T.H. White -- best novelization of the problem of power

      "Don Quixote", Miguel de Cervantes -- why stories matter

      "Essence of Decision", Graham Allison -- how views of a historic episode vary with the theory you apply

      "Abraham Lincoln: His Speeches and Writings", Basler/Sandburg -- The application of reason to the problems of law, morality and politics

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