Carl Sandburg's Abraham Lincoln Vol 1 the Prairie Years

The Prairie Years relates warmly and accurately the events in Lincoln's life from his boyhood in America's Wilderness to his departure for the White House. Her is Lincoln, the rugged young rail-splitter...the keen, brilliant lawyer with his matchless, enduring sense of humor...the shy, lovesick bridegroom...the magnificent logician in the Great Debate with Douglas. Here are the countlee happenings that shaped the life of the future president.