Abraham Lincoln: The War Years

Abraham Lincoln: The War Years is a four volume biography by Carl Sandburg published in 1939. She won the Pulitzer Prize in the history category in 1940 .

After the success of Sandburg's biography Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years in 1926, Sandburg devoted himself to Lincoln's life after 1861 and spent a total of eleven years researching and writing . The biography is shaped not only by the writer's journalistic style, but also by his unwavering admiration for Franklin D. Roosevelt's liberal New Deal policies . Sandburg believes that both Lincoln and Roosevelt represented the voice of the American people, and in many ways the biography also expresses his belief in a functioning democracy with a compassionate, gifted president.

expenditure

• Abraham Lincoln. The War Years. 4 volumes, Harcourt, Brace & Company, New York 1939.
  • Volume 1  - Internet Archive
  • Volume 2  - Internet Archive
  • Volume 3  - Internet Archive
  • Volume 4  - Internet Archive

literature

• James Hurt: Sandburg's Lincoln within History . In: Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association . tape 20 , no. 1 , 1999, p. 55–65 (English, hdl: 2027 / spo.2629860.0020.105 ).

Web links

• Review at bestpresidentialbios.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Abraham Lincoln: The War Years. In: Encyclopædia Britannica . Retrieved November 28, 2017 .