Abraham Lincoln - The Prairie Years by Carl Sandburg ~ Full Audiobook [biography]

Abraham Lincoln - The Prairie Years by Carl Sandburg audiobook.

Genre: biography

Carl Sandburg's Abraham Lincoln - The Prairie Years is a sweeping, intimate portrait of Lincoln before the White House, tracing how a shy frontier boy became a self-made lawyer, gifted storyteller, and rising political figure. Moving from the hard edges of Kentucky and Indiana to the broader horizons of Illinois, Sandburg follows Lincoln through manual labor, restless reading, early failures and reinventions, and the formation of a mind that could argue with precision and speak to ordinary people with uncommon force. Along the way, the book introduces the friends, rivals, mentors, and communities that shaped him: the rough humor and hardship of small towns, the demanding discipline of the law circuit, and the fierce debates over slavery and the nation's future that increasingly define public life. Sandburg blends documented history with vivid, scene-rich narration, capturing Lincoln's wit, melancholy, ambition, and moral seriousness while situating his private struggles inside a country lurching toward crisis. The central tension is clear: can a man of the prairie translate personal resilience and principle into leadership, as the stakes of politics grow larger and the Union strains at its seams?

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:14:20) Chapter 01

(00:31:58) Chapter 02

(00:50:35) Chapter 03

(01:13:03) Chapter 04

(01:31:13) Chapter 05

(01:56:07) Chapter 06

(02:14:45) Chapter 07

(02:34:28) Chapter 08

(03:02:57) Chapter 09

(03:30:25) Chapter 10

(03:48:04) Chapter 11

(04:11:09) Chapter 12

(04:21:15) Chapter 13

(05:11:48) Chapter 14

(05:34:19) Chapter 15

(05:53:06) Chapter 16

(06:15:10) Chapter 17

(06:33:35) Chapter 18

(06:59:35) Chapter 19

(07:20:43) Chapter 20

(07:51:34) Chapter 21

(08:19:48) Chapter 22

(08:40:41) Chapter 23

(09:05:08) Chapter 24

(09:27:43) Chapter 25

(09:53:31) Chapter 26

(10:18:10) Chapter 27

(10:32:29) Chapter 28

(10:58:08) Chapter 29

(11:23:00) Chapter 30

(11:48:21) Chapter 31

(12:23:25) Chapter 32

(12:46:03) Chapter 33

(13:03:37) Chapter 34

(13:28:27) Chapter 35

(13:50:51) Chapter 36

(14:19:23) Chapter 37

(14:46:53) Chapter 38

(15:19:09) Chapter 39

(15:41:07) Chapter 40

(16:07:00) Chapter 41

(16:32:50) Chapter 42

(16:51:34) Chapter 43

(17:16:59) Chapter 44

(17:34:10) Chapter 45

(18:08:28) Chapter 46

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