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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Telling the story with an even, unemphatic clarity and selective power, Sandburg adds incident to incident, utterance to utterance, personality to personality until he recreates the wild winter of 1860-61, when the election of Abraham Lincoln, on a platform committed to the limitation of slavery, aroused the fire-eaters...
Carl Sandburg's method with Lincoln is to light up in every way possible the men and the problems he faced from week to week, to relate with exactness what he did and said, to tell in their own words what the contemporaries thought or printed about it (Nicolay...
Above all other men, Senator Sumner of Massachusetts was a scourge and a goad to the South, an exasperation to practical statesmen like Stephen A. Douglas. Handsome, imposing, humorless and incorruptible, Sumner stood in the Senate for years denouncing slaveholders as keepers of a nameless abomination; yet he had nothing...
"We had just been called to order by the Chairman, when the officer stationed at the committee room door came in with a half-frightened expression on his face. Before he had opportunity to make explanation, we understood . . . and were ourselves almost overwhelmed with astonishment. For at the foot of...
> Against him across the Potomac was an army which could probably have taken Washington in the first weeks of the war, and a commander who outguessed and outfought every Union General. Sandburg on Lee: "Enfolded in the churchman and the Christian gentleman, Robert E. Lee was the ancient warrior who...