His only novel, Remembrance Rock (1948), is a sweeping glance at America's past, covering the period from the Puritans' landing at Plymouth Bay to World War II and the dawn of the atomic age. Author Carl Sandberg does an excellent job of weaving Lincolns story into that of his. It picks up with the trip to Washington and goes to the end of 1863. 'Abraham Lincoln: The War Years' is the second volume of Carl Sandbergs epic biography of Lincoln. Although originally released way back in 1954, this audiobook format was released in 2013. Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2009. Sandburg's great passion for American history ultimately inspired his monumental biography of Abraham Lincoln, which appeared in two installments: the two-volume Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years (1926) and the four-volume Abraham Lincoln: The War Years (1939), which won him a second Pulitzer Prize. Written by Carl Sandburg, narrated by Arthur Morey, a very long audiobook - over 44 hours of listening. In the first lines of ‘Grass,’ the speaker, grass, asks that it be allowed to do its job and cover up the bodies and history soaked battlefields around the world. He then went on to write a childrens life of Abraham Lincoln and. ‘ Grass’ by Carl Sandburg is a deeply moving poem that addresses the horrors of war and human kind’s responsibility to never forget them.
He published eleven books of poetry over a sixty-year period, and though he also published songbooks, children's books, compilations of his journalism, a six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln, and a lengthy novel, he continues to be remembered best as the United States' great “Poet of the People.” His finest collections of poetry include Chicago Poems (1916) Cornhuskers (1918) Smoke and Steel (1920) Slabs of the Sunburnt West (1922) Good Morning, America (1928) The People, Yes (1936) his Pulitzer Prize–winning Complete Poems (1950), which contains previously unpublished work and his final performance, Honey and Salt (1963). More poetry followed, along with the Rootabaga Stories, a book of fanciful childrens tales. Abraham Lincoln: The War Years (1939) alone exceeds in length the collected writings of Shakespeare by some 150,000 words. many times over, and two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Choose from Same Day Delivery, Drive Up or Order Pickup. Carl Sandburg was a poet, political activist, journalist, biographer, historian, traveling troubadour, honorary Ph.D. Read reviews and buy Abraham Lincoln - (American Roots) by Carl Sandburg (Hardcover) at Target.
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