Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, by Carl Sandburg, Vol 3 & 4

These are volume three and four of Carl Sandburg’s monumental four-volume biography, Abraham Lincoln: The War Years. Published in 1939 by Harcourt, Brace & Company, this exhaustive work provides a deep dive into Lincoln’s life and presidency during the American Civil War. Sandburg's detailed account earned him the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1940.

These specific volumes feature dark blue cloth hardcovers with gold gilt lettering on the spines. The set is well-regarded for its extensive inclusion of historical photographs, maps, letters, and political cartoons that bring the era to life. While Sandburg was primarily known as a poet, The War Years is noted for being a dense, factual, and chronological recounting of the national turmoil Lincoln navigated. Together with the earlier The Prairie Years, this series remains one of the most influential and widely read biographies of the sixteenth president.

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