Carl Sandburg (1926 Signed Condensed Volume) Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years

Description: Carl Sandburg (1926 Signed Condensed Volume) Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years Condensed Hardcover BookSigned - PersonalizedMy father grew up in Flat Rock & Zirconia NC, just outside Hendersonville NC. He personally knew Carl Sandburg who lived about 3 miles from where my father grew up. He attended Flat Rock High School and Carl Sandburg gave the commencement speech at his graduation ceremony in May of 1956. That same day, he had a meal with Carl Sandburg and Robert Frost and was presented with this book signed and inscribed personally to him by Mr. Sandburg. Book Title: Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years Author: Carl Sandburg Illustrated: no Dust jacket: none ISBN Number: none UPC Number: none Dimensions: 6 inches width, 8 inches length, 1.5 inches thick Library Of Congress Catalogue Card Number: none Signed/Inscribed/Personalized: the inscription is written directly to my father on the day of his graduation from high school. It was written in blue ink on the first blank page in the front of the book Year/Publishing Company: Harcourt, Brace And Company / Blue Ribbon Books, Inc., NY, United States Of America (1926) Pages: 604 (no missing pages) This is the authentic release & not a pirated, bootlegged or copied version. This signed hardcover book comes from my personal collection. It is stored in humidity & temperature controlled, smoke & pet free conditions. Book Condition: very good (very light shelf-wear, binding is tight, no missing pages, no dust cover jacket, all pages are gilded in blue on the top edge, all pages are completely readable, other than the inscription there is no other writing in the book, no folds, no tears: see photos) Dust Jacket: none Carl August Sandburg (January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967) was an American poet, biographer, journalist, and editor. He won three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln. During his lifetime, Sandburg was widely regarded as "a major figure in contemporary literature", especially for volumes of his collected verse, including Chicago Poems (1916), Cornhuskers (1918), and Smoke and Steel (1920). He enjoyed "unrivaled appeal as a poet in his day, perhaps because the breadth of his experiences connected him with so many strands of American life", and at his death in 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson observed that "Carl Sandburg was more than the voice of America, more than the poet of its strength and genius. He was America."Sandburg's popular multivolume biography Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years, 2 vols. (1926) and Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, 4 vols. (1939) are collectively "the best-selling, most widely read, and most influential books about Lincoln." The books have been through many editions, including a one-volume edition in 1954 prepared by Sandburg.Sandburg's Lincoln scholarship had an enormous impact on the popular view of Lincoln. The books were adapted by Robert E. Sherwood for his Pulitzer Prize-winning play Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1938) and David Wolper's six-part dramatization for television, Sandburg's Lincoln (1974). He recorded excerpts from the biography and some of Lincoln's speeches for Caedmon Records in New York City in May 1957. He was awarded a Grammy Award in 1959 for Best Performance – Documentary Or Spoken Word (Other Than Comedy) for his recording of Aaron Copland's Lincoln Portrait with the New York Philharmonic. Some historians suggest more Americans learned about Lincoln from Sandburg than from any other source.The books garnered critical praise and attention for Sandburg, including the 1940 Pulitzer Prize for History for the four-volume The War Years. But Sandburg's works on Lincoln also brought substantial criticism. William E. Barton, who had published a Lincoln biography in 1925, wrote that Sandburg's book "is not history, is not even biography" because of its lack of original research and uncritical use of evidence, but Barton nevertheless thought it was "real literature and a delightful and important contribution to the ever-lengthening shelf of really good books about Lincoln." Others criticized Sandburg's failure to document sources and factual errors. Others complain The Prairie Years and The War Years contain too much material that is neither biography nor history and is instead "sentimental poeticizing" by Sandburg. Sandburg may have viewed his book as an American epic more than as a mere biography, a view mirrored by other reviewers as well. (source: Wikipedia) CELEBRATING OUR 17th YEAR ON EBAY! Feel free to send an E-Bay message to us if you’re unable to locate something. Most of our inventory is not online, we’ll try to find it for you! 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