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RARE SIGNED BOOK: Abraham Lincoln : The Prairie Years and the War Years, One-Volume Edition, By Carl Sandburg , 1954 . Book Description: Harcourt, Brace & Co., New York, 1954. Hard Cover. Book Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition of One Volume Edition . HAND SIGNED and INSCRIBED by the author, " James Haggerty, Ever good wishes - Carl Sandburg 1955 ". James Haggerty was the Press Secretary of President Dwight D. Eisenhower . Published by Harcourt, Brace and Co.; NY: 1954. With pictorial endpapers designed by Edward Steichen , of Hand of Lincoln by Leonard Volk at the front , and Life Mask of Lincoln by Clark Mills at the back (this endpaper has a piece off the top left corner) . Cover and Spine show some wear; Internal pages are clean and tight to spine; Overall, Very Good Condition, with clean sharp hand writing of Carl Sandburg, in black ink. Carl Sandburg (January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967) was an American writer and editor, best known for his poetry . He won three Pulitzer Prizes , two for his poetry and another for a biography of Abraham Lincoln . H. L. Mencken called Carl Sandburg "indubitably an American in every pulse-beat." Biography Sandburg was born in Galesburg , Illinois , to parents of Swedish ancestry. At the age of thirteen he left school and began driving a milk wagon. He then became a bricklayer and a farm laborer on the wheat plains of Kansas .[ 1] After an interval spent at Lombard College in Galesburg, he became a hotel servant in Denver , then a coal-heaver in Omaha. He began his writing career as a journalist for the Chicago Daily News . Later he wrote poetry, history , biographies , novels , children's literature , and film reviews . Sandburg also collected and edited books of ballads and folklore . He spent most of his life in the Midwest before moving to North Carolina . Sandburg volunteered to go to the military and was stationed in Puerto Rico with the 6th Illinois Infantry during the Spanish–American War , disembarking at Guánica , Puerto Rico on July 25, 1898. Sandburg was never actually called to battle. He attended West Point for just two weeks, before failing a mathematics and grammar exam. Sandburg returned to Galesburg and entered Lombard College , but left without a degree in 1903. He moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin , and joined the Social Democratic Party, the name by which the Socialist Party of America was known in the state. Sandburg served as a secretary to Emil Seidel , socialist mayor of Milwaukee from 1910 to 1912. Sandburg met Lilian Steichen at the Social Democratic Party office in 1907, and they married the next year. Lilian's brother was the photographer Edward Steichen . Sandburg with his wife, whom he called Paula, raised three daughters. Sandburg moved to Harbert, Michigan , and then suburban Chicago , Illinois. They lived in Evanston , Illinois, before settling at 331 S. York Street in Elmhurst , Illinois, from 1919 to 1930. Sandburg wrote three children's books in Elmhurst, Rootabaga Stories , in 1922, followed by Rootabaga Pigeons (1923), and Potato Face (1930). Sandburg also wrote Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years , a two volume biography in 1926, The American Songbag (1927), and a book of poems Good Morning, America (1928) in Elmhurst. The family moved to Michigan in 1930. The Sandburg house at 331 W. York Street, Elmhurst was demolished and the site is now a parking lot. The War Years, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1940. Sandburg's Complete Poems won him a second Pulitzer Prize in 1951. He moved to a Flat Rock, North Carolina estate, Connemara , in 1945 and lived there until his death in 1967. Sandburg supported the civil rights movement, and contributed to the NAACP . WorksMuch of Carl Sandburg's poetry, such as " Chicago ", focused on Chicago, Illinois , where he spent time as a reporter for the Chicago Daily News and the Day Book . His most famous description of the city is as "Hog Butcher for the World/Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat/Player with Railroad... 
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