Carl Sandburg — Abraham Lincoln

A Legendary Biography

Carl Sandburg. Image: Pinterest.

In my profile of Carl Sandburg, Ever The Winds of Change, I wrote:

That [his]two part volume, called Abraham Lincoln — The Prairie Years, somehow changes the nature of biography — in the way Lytton Strachey did in 1918 with his Eminent Victorians — changing it by making it so much more personal, honest, unsentimental and down to earth: full of gossip and…