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    • The Stickney Revere Bell Listings of 1976
    • Paul Revere Bell of Beverly
    • Revere Bells in Boston >
      • Paul Revere Bell Old South Meeting House
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    • Falmouth, Massachusetts
    • Revere Bell Fredericksburg VA
    • Revere Bell Hampton NH
    • First Parish Church of Kennebunk
    • Revere Bells in Maine
    • Revere Bell in Mansfield
    • Revere Bell of Michigan
    • Revere Salem Mass Bell
    • Roxbury First Unitariarn Universalist Church and their Revere Bell
    • Revere & Son Bell, Savannah Georgia
    • Singapore Revere Bell
    • Tuscaloosa Bell >
      • History of the St John and Leavens Patriarchs
      • Samuel St John Jr Estate Genealogy
      • Authenticating the Revere Tuscaloosa Bell
      • Joshua B Leavens Last Will and Testament
      • 20th Century Tuscaloosa bell
    • Revere Bells Lost in Time
    • Revere Bells Washington DC
    • Revere Bell in Wakefield, Mass
    • Revere Bells Woodstock VT
  • Bostonians
    • Edward F Alexander of The Harvard 20th Civil War Regiment
    • Polly Baker
    • John Wilkes Booth
    • The Mad Hatter, Thomas, Boston Corbett who Killed John Wilkes Booth
    • Richard-Henry-Dana-Jr
    • James Franklin
    • Benjamin Harris of Publick Occurrences
    • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
    • William Lloyd Garrison
    • USS Thomas Hudner DDG116
    • Edward Hutchinson Robbins Revere
    • Amos Lincoln
    • King Philip
    • Mayor's of Boston
    • Mum Bett & Theodore Sedgwick
    • James Otis
    • Paul Joseph Revere
    • John Rowe >
      • John Rowe's Diary Entries
      • John Rowe and the Jail Fire
      • Hang John Rowe?????
      • John Rowe the Fisherman
      • Joh Rowe's Tea Ship
    • Be Proud to be Called a Lucy Stoner
    • Rachel Wall , Pirate
    • Paul Revere the Coroner of Boston
    • Deborah Sampson
    • Who was Mrs. Silence Dogood?
    • Dr. Joseph Warren's Dedication
  • History Blog
  • Lilja's of Natick
    • Lilja Brothers Military History
    • Lilja's Family Album
    • Memorials and Tributes to the Five Lilja Brothers
    • Lilja Family Tree
    • Lilja Historical Family Tree Documents
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  • Collage of Boston
    • 4th of July Parade, Bristol RI
    • Boston Harbor
    • The Customs House
    • Forest Hills Cemetery
    • Georges Island
    • Nonviolent Monument to Peace - Sherborn
    • The Battle Road
    • Skate bike and scooter park
    • Cassin Young & USS Cassin Young
    • MIT
    • Historic Charles River
    • The Roxbury Standpipe on Fort Hill
    • John & Abigail Adams National Park
  • REvere Bell Paxton, Mass
  • GED Lilja

            Abraham Lincoln & Carl Sandburg

4/14/2017

 
                                                 On The 152nd Anniversary of His Death
Twice, I have read Carl Sandburg’s four volumes, 2400 pages, of “The War Years.” It is a biography of the greatest American in this nation's history.  Abe Lincoln’s enemies were far too personal in light of the jealous cabinet members, the northern dove Democrats, his own mental depression and fellow Americans in armed rebellion.  Even the great Boston abolitionists, Wendell Phillips, Charles Sumner, Frederick Douglas and William Loyd Garrison, were at odds with his leadership until he issued the Emancipation Proclamation.  Thanks to the detail in Sandburg’s volumes, I have concluded the challenges of Lincoln’s presidency place him one pedestal higher than FDR and Washington.

Sandburg, in his lifetime, was acclaimed for his prose and poetry.  His writing talents are uninhibited in his biography of Lincoln. He finished the four volumes seventy-four years after the death of Lincoln.    Speaking for myself, historical objectivity seems enhanced if the writer is distant from the emotions and perspective of the period under review.  In the case of the “War Years,” Sandburg had been criticized for factual errors and insufficient attribution. More important, If you read any portion of the four volumes, you will be consumed by the daily difficulties faced by the Sixteenth President.  The detail provided by Sandburg may well be too much for the casual reader. 

A one-volume abridged version is available if you cannot commit to the four or six-volume versions.  The six-volume version includes Sandburg’s The Prairie Years and The War Years. 

Posted below are some internet links critiquing Sandburg and The War Years. Reading them may actually encourage you to buy the volumes.
Good luck. 
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Sandburg's Lincoln within History


Carl Sandburg's Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and The War Years is, ... Yet from the beginning,critics have pointed out that if it is a biography at all, it is a ...
Carl Sandburg | Poetry Foundation
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/carl-sandburg

Sandburg, aware of the criticism, wrote in the preface to Complete Poems: "There is a ... Abraham Lincoln: The War Years alone exceeds in length the collected ...
Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and The War Years: Carl ...
https://www.amazon.com/Abraham-Lincoln-Prairie-Years-War/dp/1480502960

Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and The War Years [Carl Sandburg, Arthur Morey] ... He later distilled this monumental work into one volume that critics and ...
Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years by Carl ...
www.goodreads.com/book/show/90822.Abraham_Lincoln

 Rating: 4.2 - ‎3,418 votes
Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years .... This is a biography of Lincoln by the esteemed poet Carl Sandburg. ... As a poet, Sandburg's version tends to be more epic and mythical--and lesscritical--in its examination of Lincoln.

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10/22/2019, MITCH, ARLENE, NANCY AND I CAN'T THANK YOU ENOUGH FOR TODAY'S TOUR OF BOSTON.  WE LOVED SEEING BOSTON THROUGH YOUR EYES AND WERE AMAZED WITH ALL YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE CITY.  YOU ARE REALLY GOOD AT WHAT YOU DO.  BOBBIE.

7/15/2019, MITCH, THANK YOU FOR THE PRIVATE TOUR ALONG THE FREEDOM TRAIL.  WE LOVED THE WAY YOU LAYERED ALL THE EVENTS LEADING UP TO THE REVOLUTION GIVING US AN INSIDE LOOK AT THE POLITICS AND CONTRASTING VIEWSPOINTS OF THE "ENGLISH COUSINS". WE ESPECIALLY FOUND THE TALK AT FANEUIL HALL MOST TIMELY IN TODAYS STATE OF POLITICS.  THANKS MUCH, THE GIRLS FROM CHICAGO.
9/16/2018, comments on Paul Revere group tour.
ruth, It was a terrific tour. You clearly have done a lot of research. Thanks for the additional information.

EM, Mitch, thank you for the additional information. It was a wonderful few hours and I will assume you Get credit for the glorious weather.

Thank you so much, Mitch and Nancy!  The "rest of the story" info you sent is the icing on the cake.  Your tour was perfect-great information presented in an entertaining, casual way.  The wonderful weather helped, of course. Thanks again for offering your tour.  Hope to do it again.
Best,
Sue

8/13/2018
Great Work! So glad to see other walking guides whose research and use of primary sources is so thorough. DLa xxx (a.k.a. Mistress xxxxxxxxx de la xxx) #ocbground
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Date: Fri, jun 22, 2018, 3:57 pm
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The tour of the freedom trail with the emphasis on Paul Revere was very informative.  We started at the state house and learned about its architecture.  We continued through Boston Commons and past the burial grounds.  We then continued to the north end and Paul Revere’s house.  At each stop Mitch had many interesting and little known facts to tell us.  We were surprised by the number of occupations Paul Revere had.  During our walk through the north end Mitch pointed out various restaurants to eat in.  The tour was about 2 miles of walking and lasted about 1 hour 45 minutes and was most enjoyable.  We would definitely take another tour with Mitch in the future.
Betsy, florida


6/5/2018 ​

Hi Sheila,


I just wanted to tell you and Mitch how very much I enjoyed today. Mitch is passion for history comes through loud and clear in his delivery.

I learned new facts about Paul Revere that I had never known before.

Mitch was so well-prepared including all of the pictures and it was obvious that heput a lot of time and effort into this tour and the presentation.

So thank you so much for the invitation
He did a great job!
leslie b, Natick



10/18/2017Hi Mitch, finally getting to say thank you for such an enjoyable day and tour of Paul Revere etc.. I truly learned so much and loved walking through so much of historic Boston! PHYLIS, nh

9/5/2017
Hi Beth,

Thanks for asking us to go on your tour, Mitch, of Boston’s historic sites. Your enthusiasm and love of history is contagious. You made history come alive. Sorry I had to leave early. I bet the tour of the North End was equally exciting! You put your all into it.
sarah r. Wellesley

6/15/2017 gxxxxen@snhu.edu Comment 6/1/2017, Your remarks about John Hancock really painted a historical image of the man.
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​Irishman1987
I was there that day with members of Jerusalem lodge #104 Keene NH, I am so glad I had the chance to attend this event and pay my respects.

6/3/2017 GS, SNHU,edu,  Mitch your remarks about John Hancock really painted an historical image of the man.

10/15/2016 Thank you so much for the Boston Massacre Tour.  I never knew it was such a complicated affair.  I particularly liked the incidental historical stops about Colonial Boston.  I hadn't been downtown for years.  You opened up so much for me.  June, Natick Ma.

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  • Freedom Trail Tours
    • The Boston Massacre Tour
    • Boston Civil War Tours
    • The Kennedy Tour
    • The Boston Massacre Lesson Plan
    • The Boston Massacre per the Pennsylvania Gazette
    • Paul Revere Lesson Plan
  • Revere Bells Index
    • The Stickney Revere Bell Listings of 1976
    • Paul Revere Bell of Beverly
    • Revere Bells in Boston >
      • Paul Revere Bell Old South Meeting House
    • California's 2 Paul Revere Bells
    • Paul Revere & Son's Bell Westborough Massachusetts
    • Falmouth, Massachusetts
    • Revere Bell Fredericksburg VA
    • Revere Bell Hampton NH
    • First Parish Church of Kennebunk
    • Revere Bells in Maine
    • Revere Bell in Mansfield
    • Revere Bell of Michigan
    • Revere Salem Mass Bell
    • Roxbury First Unitariarn Universalist Church and their Revere Bell
    • Revere & Son Bell, Savannah Georgia
    • Singapore Revere Bell
    • Tuscaloosa Bell >
      • History of the St John and Leavens Patriarchs
      • Samuel St John Jr Estate Genealogy
      • Authenticating the Revere Tuscaloosa Bell
      • Joshua B Leavens Last Will and Testament
      • 20th Century Tuscaloosa bell
    • Revere Bells Lost in Time
    • Revere Bells Washington DC
    • Revere Bell in Wakefield, Mass
    • Revere Bells Woodstock VT
  • Bostonians
    • Edward F Alexander of The Harvard 20th Civil War Regiment
    • Polly Baker
    • John Wilkes Booth
    • The Mad Hatter, Thomas, Boston Corbett who Killed John Wilkes Booth
    • Richard-Henry-Dana-Jr
    • James Franklin
    • Benjamin Harris of Publick Occurrences
    • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
    • William Lloyd Garrison
    • USS Thomas Hudner DDG116
    • Edward Hutchinson Robbins Revere
    • Amos Lincoln
    • King Philip
    • Mayor's of Boston
    • Mum Bett & Theodore Sedgwick
    • James Otis
    • Paul Joseph Revere
    • John Rowe >
      • John Rowe's Diary Entries
      • John Rowe and the Jail Fire
      • Hang John Rowe?????
      • John Rowe the Fisherman
      • Joh Rowe's Tea Ship
    • Be Proud to be Called a Lucy Stoner
    • Rachel Wall , Pirate
    • Paul Revere the Coroner of Boston
    • Deborah Sampson
    • Who was Mrs. Silence Dogood?
    • Dr. Joseph Warren's Dedication
  • History Blog
  • Lilja's of Natick
    • Lilja Brothers Military History
    • Lilja's Family Album
    • Memorials and Tributes to the Five Lilja Brothers
    • Lilja Family Tree
    • Lilja Historical Family Tree Documents
    • Lilja References
  • Collage of Boston
    • 4th of July Parade, Bristol RI
    • Boston Harbor
    • The Customs House
    • Forest Hills Cemetery
    • Georges Island
    • Nonviolent Monument to Peace - Sherborn
    • The Battle Road
    • Skate bike and scooter park
    • Cassin Young & USS Cassin Young
    • MIT
    • Historic Charles River
    • The Roxbury Standpipe on Fort Hill
    • John & Abigail Adams National Park
  • REvere Bell Paxton, Mass
  • GED Lilja