<div><P>Welcome to Rootabaga Country&#8212;where the railroad tracks go from straight to zigzag, where the pigs wear bibs, and where the Village of Cream Puffs floats in the wind. You'll meet baby balloon pickers, flummywisters, corn fairies, and blue foxes&#8212;and if you're not careful, you may never find your way back home! </P><P>This part one of the Rootabaga Stories retains the original illustrations by Maud and Miska Petersham.</P></div>

Rootabaga Stories, Part One

<div><B>Writings on the American Civil War selected from the Pulitzer Prize&ndash;winning presidential biography <I>Abraham Lincoln: The War Years</I>, with illustrations and maps.</B><BR />  <BR /> Drawn from Carl Sandburg&rsquo;s magisterial biography of the sixteenth US president, this volume focuses in on the War Between the States, bringing the author&rsquo;s trademark clarity and vivid style to this dark and dramatic period in the nation&rsquo;s history. Moving from Sumter to Shiloh, Antietam to Gettysburg, <I>Storm Over the Land</I> is a classic chronicle of this bloody conflict, richly illustrated with halftones and drawings. </div>

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Storm Over the Land

<div><B>The Pulitzer Prize&ndash;winning poet and historian recalls his midwestern boyhood in this classic memoir.</B><BR />  <BR /> Born in a tiny cottage in Galesburg, Illinois, in 1878, Carl Sandburg grew with America. As a boy he left school at the age of thirteen to embark on a life of work&mdash;driving a milk wagon and serving as a hotel porter, a bricklayer, and a farm laborer before eventually finding his place in the world of literature.<BR />  <BR /> In <I>Always the Young Strangers</I>, Sandburg delivers a nostalgic view of small-town life around the turn of the twentieth century and an invaluable perspective on American history.<BR />  </div>

Always the Young Strangers

<div><B>This classic volume of reportage by the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet and journalist examines the racial tensions that erupted in the Red Summer of 1919.</B><br/><br/>In July of 1919, a black child swam past the invisible line of segregation at one of Chicago’s public beaches. White men on the shore threw rocks at the boy until he was knocked unconscious and drowned. After police shrugged off demands for those white men to be arrested, riots broke out that would last for days, claim thirty-four lives, and burn down several houses in the city’s “black-belt.”<br/><br/>A young reporter for the Chicago Daily News, Carl Sandburg was assigned to cover the story. His series of articles went well beyond a chronicle of the violence of the moment. They explored the complex and incendiary social, economic, and political tensions that finally ignited that summer. This volume of Sandburg’s articles includes an introduction by Walter Lipmann and a foreword by Ralph McGill.</div>

The Chicago Race Riots

<div><B>A collection from the Pulitzer Prize&ndash;winning American poet with &ldquo;a sharp lively wit and a tender approach to the human condition&rdquo; (<I>The Philadelphia Inquirer</I>).</B><BR />  <BR /> Though he was also renowned as a biographer of Abraham Lincoln, Carl Sandburg was first and foremost a poet&mdash;upon his death, President Lyndon B. Johnson said &ldquo;Carl Sandburg was more than the voice of America, more than the poet of its strength and genius. He was America.&rdquo;<BR />  <BR /> In this outstanding collection of seventy-seven poems, Sandburg eloquently celebrates the themes that engaged him as a poet for more than half a century of writing&mdash;life, love, and death. Strongly lyrical, these intensely honest poems testify to human courage, frailty, and tenderness and to the enduring wonders of nature.<BR />  <BR /> &ldquo;A poetic genius whose creative power has in no way lessened with the passing years.&rdquo; &mdash;<I>Chicago Tribune</I></div>

Honey and Salt

<div><B>The great American poet’s essential collection spanning fifty years of verse—with an introduction by Mark Van Doren.</B><br/><br/>With major contributions in the realms of journalism, biography and children’s fiction, Carl Sandburg was a luminary of twentieth-century American literature. But he was first a foremost a poet who transformed the diversity of his experience into powerfully vivid and beloved verse. His many collections won numerous accolades, including two Pulitzer Prizes.<br/><br/>This selection of Sandburg’s poems is culled from half a century of output and includes thirteen poems appearing in book form for the first time. As this collection so masterfully demonstrates, “[Sandburg’s poetry] is independent, honest, direct, lyric, and it endures, clamorous and muted, magical as life itself” (<I>New York Times</I>).</div>

Harvest Poems

<div><B>This illustrated anthology features the celebrated poet’s complete works for children—with an introduction by his wife, Paula Sandburg.</B><br/><br/>As a young father of two daughters, Carl Sandburg noticed that children’s literature was still stuck in the traditions of European folklore, centered on princes, princesses and peasants. He wanted to create stories that spoke more directly to American children and their way of life. His first book for children, <I>Rootabaga Stories</I>, explore farms, trains and other typical locales as the clever characters discover the magic of the Midwest.<br/><br/>This volume includes all five of Carl Sandburg’s books for young readers: <I>Rootabaga Stories, Early Moon, Wind Song, Prairie-Town Boy, </I>and <I>Abe Lincoln Grows Up.</I></div>

The Sandburg Treasury

<div><B>The acclaimed epic prose-poem from one of America’s greatest poets and the three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize. </B><br/><br/>A long poem that makes brilliant use of the legends and myths, the tall tales and sayings of America. As Irish poet Padraic Colum said, “The fine thing about <I>The People, Yes</I> is that it is indubitable speech. Here is a man speaking, a man who knows all sorts and conditions of men, who can be wise and witty, stirring and nonsensical with them all. Carl Sandburg is a master of his own medium; he can deliver himself with the extraordinary clarity of the comic strip caption, with the punch of the tip-top editorial, with the jingle of the American ballad. If America has a folksinger today he is Carl Sandburg, a singer who comes out of the prairie soil, who has the prairie inheritance, who can hand back to the people a creation that has scraps of their own insight, humor, and imagination, a singer, it should be added, who both says and sings . . . He has a passion that gives dignity to all he says. It is a passion for humanity, not merely for the man with depths of personality in him, but for the ordinary man and woman . . . <I>The People, Yes</I> is his most appealing volume.”<br/><br/><B>Praise for Carl Sandburg</B><br/><br/>“A poetic genius whose creative power has in no way lessened with the passing years.” —<I>Chicago Tribune</I><br/><br/>“Carl Sandburg was more than the voice of America, more than the poet of its strength and genius. He was America.” — President Lyndon B. Johnson</div>

The People, Yes

<div><P><B>This definitive, single-volume edition of the Pulitzer Prize&ndash;winning biography delivers &ldquo;a Lincoln whom no other man . . . could have given us&rdquo; (<I>New York Herald Tribune Book Review</I>).</B></P><P>Celebrated for his vivid depictions of the nineteenth-century American Midwest, Carl Sandburg brings unique insight to the life of Abraham Lincoln in this distinguished biography. He captures both the man who grew up on the Indiana prairie and the president who held the country together through the turbulence and tragedy of the Civil War.</P><P>Based on a lifetime of research, Sandburg&rsquo;s biography<I></I>was originally published as a monumental, six-volume study. The author later distilled the work down to this single-volume edition that is considered by many to be his greatest work of nonfiction.</P></div>

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Books By Carl Sandburg (9 Books)

Rootabaga Stories, Part One

Storm Over the Land

Always the Young Strangers

The Chicago Race Riots

Honey and Salt

Harvest Poems

The Sandburg Treasury

The People, Yes

Abraham Lincoln

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