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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 countr...

The great American poet's essential collection spanning fifty years of verse—with an introduction by Mark Van Doren.With major contributions in the realms of journalism, biography and children's fiction, Carl Sandburg was a luminary of twentieth-century American literature. But he was first a foremost a poet who transformed the diversity of his experience into powerfully vivid and beloved verse. His many collections won numerous accolades, including two Pulitzer Pri...

Writings on the American Civil War selected from the Pulitzer Prize–winning presidential biography Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, with illustrations and maps.Drawn from Carl Sandburg's magisterial biography of the sixteenth US president, this volume focuses in on the War Between the States, bringing the author's trademark clarity and vivid style to this dark and dramatic period in the nation's history. Moving from Sumter to Shiloh, Antietam to Gettysburg,...

"Rootabaga Stories" is known for its whimsical and imaginative tales set in the fictional land of Rootabaga, a fantastical place inhabited by quirky characters, magical creatures, and absurd situations. The stories are reminiscent of traditional folktales and fairy tales but with a distinctly American flavor and Sandburg's unique storytelling style.The collection includes a variety of stories, poems, and nonsense rhymes, each filled with wordplay, humor, and vivid imagery. Some of the char...

The acclaimed epic prose-poem from one of America's greatest poets and the three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize.A long poem that makes brilliant use of the legends and myths, the tall tales and sayings of America. As Irish poet Padraic Colum said, "The fine thing about The People, Yes is that it is indubitable speech. Here is a man speaking, a man who knows all sorts and conditions of men, who can be wise and witty, stirring and nonsensical with them all...

The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet and historian recalls his midwestern boyhood in this classic memoir.Born in a tiny cottage in Galesburg, Illinois, in 1878, Carl Sandburg grew with America. As a boy he left school at the age of thirteen to embark on a life of work—driving a milk wagon and serving as a hotel porter, a bricklayer, and a farm laborer before eventually finding his place in the world of literature.In Always the Young Strangers, Sandburg ...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

In "Rootabaga Pigeons," Carl Sandburg crafts a whimsical and fantastical collection of stories that celebrate the beauty and absurdity of childhood imagination. Written in a playful, lyrical prose typical of Sandburg's work, this book presents a series of vignettes featuring vibrant characters and strange adventures. Situated within the larger context of early 20th-century American children'Äôs literature, it reflects Sandburg'Äôs unique ability to blend elements of folklore, poetry, and e...

“A Lincoln whom no other man than Carl Sandburg could have given us.” —Mark Van Doren, New York Herald Tribune Book ReviewOriginally published in six volumes, which sold more than one million copies, Carl Sandburg’s Abraham Lincoln was praised as the most noteworthy historical biography of Sandburg’s generation. He later distilled this monumental work into one volume that critics and readers alike consider his greatest work of nonfiction, as well as the most disti...

A collection from the Pulitzer Prize–winning American poet with "a sharp lively wit and a tender approach to the human condition" ( The Philadelphia Inquirer).Though he was also renowned as a biographer of Abraham Lincoln, Carl Sandburg was first and foremost a poet—upon his death, President Lyndon B. Johnson said "Carl Sandburg was more than the voice of America, more than the poet of its strength and genius. He was America."In this outstanding co...

A fresh look at the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet laureate of the American MidwestWith the publication of Chicago Poems in 1916, Carl Sandburg became one of the most famous poets in America: the voice of a Midwestern literary revolt, fusing free-verse poetics with hard-edged journalistic observation and energetic, sometimes raucous protest.By the time his first book appeared, Sandburg had been many things—a farm hand, a soldier in the Spanish-America...

This classic volume of reportage by the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet and journalist examines the racial tensions that erupted in the Red Summer of 1919.In July of 1919, a black child swam past the invisible line of segregation at one of Chicago's public beaches. White men on the shore threw rocks at the boy until he was knocked unconscious and drowned. After police shrugged off demands for those white men to be arrested, riots broke out that would last for days, clai...