Abraham Lincoln
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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 country together through the turbulence and tragedy of the Civil War. Based on a lifetime of research, Sandburg’s biographywas originally pu
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…novelization of the problem of power "Don Quixote", Miguel de Cervantes -- why stories matter "Essence of Decision", Graham Allison -- how views of a historic episode vary with the theory you apply "Abraham Lincoln: His Speeches and Writings", Basler/Sandburg -- The application of reason to the problems of law, morality and politics
on “Ask HN: Life Changing Books?” ↗If you like Caro’s approach to biography, I suggest Carl Sandburg’s biography of Abraham Lincoln. Sandburg is much better known for his poetry, but I found his style and attention to detail engrossing in the same way that Caro usually is.
on “A Civil War over Semicolons: Biographer Robert Caro and His Editor” ↗