Record details

• ISBN: 0684192519
• ISBN: 9780684192512
• Physical Description: xix, 843 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
• Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons ; [1991]
• Copyright: ©1991

Content descriptions

General Note:

"A Robert Stewart book."

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 805-812) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Pt. I. The prairie years. The young stranger (1869-1895) ; The dust of the traveled road (1896-1898) ; An independent drifter (1898-1902) ; Reckless ecstasy (1902-1904) ; A vagabond philosopher-poet (1904-1906) ; Uncharted seas (1906-1907) ; A gospel of freedom to come (1907-1908) ; Hope and glory (1908) ; Dreamers? Yes, dreamers (1908-1909) ; Fugitives of pain (1909-1911). -- Pt. II. The Chicago years. This my city (1912-1914) ; Blood, work and war (1914-1916) ; The four brothers (1916-1918) ; World storm (1918-1919) ; Smoke and steel (1919-1920) ; To a far country of make-believe (1920-1921) ; Refuge in Rootabaga country (1922) ; A certain portrait (1923-1925) ; Strange friend (1925-1926). -- Pt. III. The Lincoln years. American singer (1926-1929) ; A great bundle of grief (1929-1933) ; Heroes, did you say? (1933-1936) ; Lincoln? (1936-1940) ; Heartbreak time (1940-1945). -- Pt. IV. The Connemara years. The eternal hobo (1945-1946) ; American dreamer (1946-1949) ; Songs and scars (1949-1951) ; A majestic old age (1951-1954) ; The family of man (1954-1956) ; Yes no yes no (1957-1958) ; Honey and salt (1959-1967). -- Epilogue: Shadows.

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Also issued online.

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Subject:

Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967.
Poets, American > 20th century > Biography.
Biographers > United States > Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

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