The Lincoln scholar, Lloyd Lewis, wrote in The New York Herald Tribune, "It has been the best research job yet done on Lincoln-possibly on any American...There has probably never been such a summoning of witnesses before in American literature or law, no such marshaling of incident, such sifting of rumor, such collecting of evidence, eye-witness and hearsay, as the author here produces...In the thirty-odd years across which he has been collecting Lincolniana, Sandburg has gone everywhere he heard a Lincoln letter or an observation on the man might be stored. And his product is, like his poems, a singularly eloquent use of contemporary anecdote and language."
Books (from left to right):
Sandburg, Carl. Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years. Two volumes. New York, NY: Harcourt, 1926. H 24.0 cm, W 17.0 cm, T 5.0 cm Sandburg, Carl.Abraham Lincoln: The War Years. Four volumes. New York, NY: Harcourt, 1939. Vols 1-3 are: H 24.0 cm, W 17.0 cm, T 5.3 cm Vol 4 is : H 24.0 cm, W 17.0 cm, T 4.5 cm Sandburg, Carl. Lincoln Collector: The Story of Oliver R. Barrett's Great Private Collection. New York, NY: Harcourt, 1949 H 24.3 cm, W 16.8 cm, T 4.0 cm Sandburg, Carl.Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years. One volume edition. New York, NY: Harcourt, 1954. H 24.0 cm, W 17.0 cm, T 5.0 cm Sandburg, Carl and Meserve, Frederick Hill. The Photographs of Abraham Lincoln. New York, NY: Harcourt, 1944. H 24.4 cm, W 17.0 cm, T 1.6 cm Sandburg, Carl.Mary Lincoln: Wife and Widow. New York, NY: Harcourt, 1932. H 24.5 cm, W 16.8 cm, T 4.3 cm Sandburg, Carl.Abe Lincoln Grows Up. New York, NY: Harcourt, 1928. H 23.5 cm, W 17.5 cm, T 2.9 cm
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