Jithin raj biography of abraham lincoln by carl sandburg

The first two volumes, Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years , were published in and cover the period from Lincoln's birth through his inauguration as president.

He previously spent seven years as president of the University of.

The final four volumes were published together in , and won the Pulitzer Prize for History. Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and Abraham Lincoln: The War Years are collectively considered by many to be "the best-selling, most widely read, and most influential book[s] about Lincoln. Sandburg's Lincoln scholarship, primarily in these volumes, had an enormous impact on the popular view of Lincoln.

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 Pulitzer Prize for History for the four-volume The War Years. But Sandburg's works on Lincoln also brought substantial criticism. William Eleazar Barton , who had published a Lincoln biography in , 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.

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“I am the people the mob, the crowd, the mass” by Carl Sandburg he ends with these lines.

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