Abraham Lincoln - The Prairie Years by Carl Sandburg audiobook.

Genre: biography

Let Carl Sandburg’s warm, muscular voice — through his language even if not the narrator’s — draw you into the creaking, sun-drenched world where a shy backwoods youth became the nation’s conscience: Abraham Lincoln — The Prairie Years is not a dry chronicle but a living, breathing saga of log cabins, riverboats, rough-hewn courts, and candlelit study that reads like epic folklore and sounds glorious in audio, where Sandburg’s poetic rhythms and storyteller’s timing unfold like a fireside yarn; you’ll hear Lincoln stumble and rise, learn to read by dogged candlelight, spar and joke with frontier neighbors, face heartbreak and moral testing, and grow into a leader shaped by hardship, humor, and an unshakable sense of justice — Sandburg blends meticulous research with lyrical empathy so every scene feels intimate and immediate, perfect for listening while your imagination paints steely Illinois skies, muddy rivers, and the crowded taverns where ideas sparred into conviction; the audiobook lets you savor Sandburg’s cadences, the cadence of Lincoln’s own self-fashioning, the small human moments that textbooks skip, and the sweeping social backdrop that made his choices epochal, making it ideal for long walks, commutes, or evening hours when you want to be both soothed and stirred — press play and let one of America’s great poetic historians turn history into narrative theatre, offering not just facts but the sound and soul of a becoming legend.

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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