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To: Homer_J_Simpson

Please add me. The most highly recommendable biography of The Rail-Splitter is unquestionably Carl Sandburg’s Lincoln. You don’t have to worry about any sort of modern revisionism. It was completed in 1940. It is chock full of the personality the man. He drips off the pages — his wit, wisdom and anecdotes. From wrasslin Jack Armstrong, to losing a delivery of pigs when the raft crashed. It goes into the the first time he witnessed slavery at its worst, something he never forgot. He could hold an axe, by the end of the handle, fully extended out to the side and parallel to the ground longer than any man in the county. It goes into his first love, Anne Rutledge. His many years traveling the back country as a lawyer on horseback or afoot. The man was bigger than life.


89 posted on 11/21/2015 9:18:33 PM PST by HandyDandy (Don't make up stuff. It just wastes everybody's time.)
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To: HandyDandy

..........and Sandburg won a Pulitzer for it.


90 posted on 11/21/2015 9:22:34 PM PST by HandyDandy (Don't make up stuff. It just wastes everybody's time.)
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