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He spent time in the White House researching Lincoln. He read newspapers
from the North and the South from the period. He read more than 1,000
books in his first year of research alone. The more he studied, the
more intrigued he became with Lincoln and the war years. In 1939 Carl
Sandburg wrote about Lincoln's last four years in his four-volume Pulitzer-Prize
winning biography Abraham Lincoln: The War Years. In these writings,
the stories of Lincoln and the people and their times are told. In a
Time magazine article upon the completion of The War Years, it was written,
"This four-volume biography...is a work whose meaning will not
soon be exhausted,
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whose greatness will not soon be estimated. It can be said that no
US biography surpasses it in wealth of documentation and fidelity to
fact, that none, not even Douglas Southall Freeman's monumental Robert
E. Lee, can compare with it in strength, scope and beauty..."
Sandburg, however, didn't end his relationship with Lincoln at the
publishing of The War Years. He continued to write about Lincoln after
he moved to North Carolina in 1945, and in 1954 Sandburg published an
abridged (or "distilled" as Sandburg referred to it) one-volume
edition of Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and The War Years.
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