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That book prompted Sandburg’s publisher, Alfred Harcourt, to suggest a biography of Abraham Lincoln for children. Sandburg researched and wrote for three years, producing not a children’s book, but a two-volume biography for adults. His Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years, published in 1926, ...
The poems in the original edition were inspired by the things Whitman found fascinating: the crowds of New York, the modern inventions the public marveled over, and the raucous politics of the 1850s. While Whitman apparently hoped to become the poet of the common man, his book went largely ...
8. The prose masterpiece of ___is the monumental biography Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years (two volumes, 1926) and Abraham Lincoln: The War Years (four volumes, 1939), the latter of which earned him the 1940 Pulitzer Prize in history. 9. ___ was successful in two different fields ...
carte de visite of Marian Adams Marian (Clover) Adams as a child, from a carte de visite,c.1851–52; in the Massachusetts Historical Society. Marian Hooper—called Clover by family and friends—was the youngest child of BostonBrahmins. Her mother, Ellen Sturgis Hooper, a published poet and...
Robert Stark is joined by Matt Pegas to discuss his article, Contrasting my Political Journey with that of Richard Hanania (How I became who I am, as a Woke Chad Centrist). Topics: -Whether Robert should write an auto-biography or insider history of the Alt-Right -The Background of Rich...
In Search of Nella Larsen: A Biography of the Color Line by George Hutchinson (Belknap Press, May 30, 2006) A House Is Not a Home: A B-Boy Blues Novel by James Earl Hardy (Amistad, May 23, 2006) Breastlessness - What To Do When You Don’t Know What To Do by M. Nicole Bryant...
American poet Also known as: Walter Whitman Written by Gay Wilson Allen Professor of English, New York University, 1946–69. Author ofThe Solitary Singer: A Critical Biography of Walt Whitmanand others. Gay Wilson Allen, Alexander Norman Jeffares ...
(Cf. Santiago Valdez, Biography of Padre Martinez, 1877) Padre Martínez adjusted relatively quickly and rather well to New Mexico’s new political reality under the United States. However, for all his talents and accomplishments as the Priest of Taos and politician of New Mexico, Martínez had...
To prevent this crime against history, he set out to write a biography of his friend and partner that would set the record straight. He spent much of the next two years tracking down individuals who had known Lincoln personally. Herndon’s Informants embodies the fruit of that labor. ...