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Abe Lincoln Laughing
04-10-2017, 09:31 PM
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When Carl Sandburg first approached Alfred Harcourt about writing a book on Lincoln, he wanted to write a biography for children, saying he wanted a book on Lincoln that he could have read as a young boy in Galesburg, Illinois. It was only later that Sandburg and Harcourt realized that Abraham Lincoln The Prairie Years was not going to be a children's book.

After the success of The Prairie Years, Harcourt took the first 27 chapters of the book and turned it into a book called Abraham Lincoln Grows Up. Interestingly, the chapters were reprinted verbatim from The Prairie Years. Harcourt saw no need to "dumb down" the book for children.

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Abraham Lincoln in the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom.
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Abe Lincoln Laughing - Gene C - 04-06-2017, 09:58 AM
RE: Abe Lincoln Laughing - RJNorton - 04-06-2017, 10:13 AM
RE: Abe Lincoln Laughing - Anita - 04-06-2017, 09:58 PM
RE: Abe Lincoln Laughing - Eva Elisabeth - 04-06-2017, 12:29 PM
RE: Abe Lincoln Laughing - Gene C - 04-07-2017, 08:34 AM
RE: Abe Lincoln Laughing - Anita - 04-07-2017, 01:57 PM
RE: Abe Lincoln Laughing - Eva Elisabeth - 04-07-2017, 09:13 AM
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RE: Abe Lincoln Laughing - Eva Elisabeth - 04-10-2017, 01:56 PM
RE: Abe Lincoln Laughing - Rob Wick - 04-10-2017 09:31 PM
RE: Abe Lincoln Laughing - Eva Elisabeth - 04-12-2017, 10:15 AM
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