Writer of a 1939 lincoln biography

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James said:. April 12, at am. The abridgment was written after the Lincoln Papers were released and is thus far more than your typical abridgment. Anthony E Shaw said:. April 13, at pm. It is an elegantly told account, long on some details and sparse on in-depth analysis. Overall rating: 3 stars. Share this: Twitter Facebook Email Tumblr.

Like Loading Steve said: May 29, at am. James said: April 12, at am. Anthony E Shaw said: April 13, at pm. Leave a comment Cancel reply. And he has done more than that. For I think it is difficult tor anyone to read these volumes and not come out, at the end, with a renewed faith in the democracy that Lincoln believed in and a renewed belief in the America he sought.

They are a good purge for our own troubled time and for its more wild-eyed fears. For here we see the thing working, clumsily, erratically, often unfairly, attacked and reviled by extremists of left and right, yet working and surviving nevertheless. Sandburg remarks, with justice. Sandburg denounces a part of America today. For the man who was Lincoln, the great, complex, humorous, melancholy figure — Mr.

Sandburg shows him, in certain sections of this biography, as clearly and as fully as he has ever been shown. The slow growth is there, and each ring on the tree is counted.

Writer of a 1939 lincoln biography

At other times, particularly in volume one, the man himself seems submerged in the stream of events. I could, myself, have spared a good many pages on minor figures, a good many quotations from speeches in Congress, even certain anecdotes, interesting enough in themselves, for a sharper focus on the central subject. Now and then it is hard to see the wood tor the trees, now and then Mr.

It is a little difficult, for me to see just why Mr. Sandburg gives less space to the Porter ease than to General Tom Thumb, more space to the funeral tributes of the clergy than to the actual three days of Gettysburg. There are places where Mr. But, when all this is said, the book remains. To chip at it with a hammer is a little like chipping at Stone Mountain.

It has faults.