Abraham Lincoln : The War Years : 4 Volume Set (Abraham Lincoln: The War Years)

by Carl Sandburg

Hardcover, 1939

Status

Available

Call number

973.7

Publication

Harcourt, Brace & Company (1939), 2501 pages

Description

"September 11, 2001" Two teenagers on opposite sides of the globe flee everything they know. In a world turned upside down by tragedy, they are refugees. Sixteen-year-old Dawn runs away from her unhappy foster home in California and travels to New York City. Johar, an Afghani teenager, sees his world crumble before him. He flees his war-ravaged village and the Taliban, and makes a dangerous trek to a refugee camp in Pakistan. Thanks to his knowledge of English, Johar finds a job at the camp assisting Louise, the Red Cross doctor--and Dawn's foster mother. Through e-mails and phone calls, Dawn and Johar begin to share and protect each other's secrets, fears, and dreams, and a remarkable bond forms that gives each of them hope and the courage to find a path home. "From the Hardcover edition."… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member estamm
I know that this is a 'classic', but I found the writing tedious at times. At one spot, there were two complete pages that contained a single sentence. I actually skipped a few chapters. There was some interesting material, and it is good that this brings together an incredible number of sources
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(its main benefit), but there are other biographies I liked much better.
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LibraryThing member keylawk
Sandberg was born 13 years after the Civil War concluded (1865), and after visiting over a hundred libraries and more sites, he writes as a newspaperman from his Goat Farm, with a great emphasis on the documents, quotations, and portraits of the period. He finished the first volume in 1939.

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Awards

Pulitzer Prize (Winner — History — 1940)

Language

Original publication date

1939

Physical description

2501 p.

ISBN

129911525X / 9781299115255
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