Pulitzer-winning biography tracing Lincoln from Midwest prairie youth to Civil War president, blending folk portrait with national crisis.
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Pulitzer-winning biography tracing Lincoln from Midwest prairie youth to Civil War president, blending folk portrait with national crisis.
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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...
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will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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Courtship and marriage to Mary Todd; mild personal-life references only
Violence & gore
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Civil War battles and casualties; assassination and wartime death depicted
Profanity
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Occasional rough frontier vernacular and period speech
Substance use
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Period social drinking and temperance mentions in frontier life
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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No LGBTQ+ representation present
Religious content
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Lincoln’s faith, biblical rhetoric, and Civil War-era religious themes
Magic & witchcraft
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No magic or witchcraft present
Occult / demonology
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No occult or demonology content present
Political content
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Slavery, Union, democracy, and Civil War politics define the entire work
Self-harm / suicide
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References to Lincoln’s melancholy and depressive moods
Abuse & suffering
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Slavery as central systemic cruelty; war suffering and human cost
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