[Perseverando]

Once again, it's time for an American Minute history lesson.

[leaning conservative]

I read a poem of his at my father’s funeral.

[YogicCowboy]

True pro-life sentiments.

[Albion Wilde]

Time changes things. His pro-life sentiments were of a time when abortion was completely unthinkable; yet he was more than a little bit leftist in his day and even joined the Socialist Democrat party. His folk songs were the inspiration for the Joan Baez - Pete Seeger era. His work was a secular romanticization of the images of American life in the days before color magazines, movies and television.

Self-made and scantily educated, even his popular biographies of Lincoln were more https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sandburglike today's historical fiction movie scripts, According to his Wikipedia page:

Sandburg's works on Lincoln also brought substantial criticism. William E. Barton, who had published a Lincoln biography in 1925, 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." Others criticized Sandburg's failure to document sources and factual errors. Others complain The Prairie Years and The War Years contain too much material that is neither biography nor history and is instead "sentimental poeticizing" by Sandburg.

Hard to tell how far left he would be today; probably a favorite of Democrat special events, PBS and the Kennedy Center.