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08-04-2012, 04:23 PM
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RE: Carl Sandburg and Lincoln
Tom,
You are absolutely correct regarding the Nancy Hanks issue. What also bedeviled some was Nancy singing a song to Abraham that hadn't been written yet. I have to believe that didn't really bother Sandburg much because he was going for a scene in The Prairie Years rather than writing a monograph. As for the books, in my article in the Journal of Illinois History on Sandburg and Randall, I compared the publishing history of The Prairie Years to Randall's Constitutional Problems Under Lincoln. Randall had to pay to get his book published, and it never (as far as I can tell) sold out. Sandburg sold 48,000 copies in the first year alone. Yeah, I agree that there was some jealousy there. Best Rob Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom. --Ida M. Tarbell
I want the respect of intelligent men, but I will choose for myself the intelligent. --Carl Sandburg
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