The Lincoln of Carl Sandburg : some reviews of "Abraham Lincoln: the war years" which for the authority of their judgments and the grace of their style, deserve at least the permanence of this pamphlet . CARL SANDBURG. Photograph by Eric Schaal. LINCOLN LIFE xMASK AND CARL SANDBURGS HAND. Photograph by Eihvitrd Steichen. Courtesy of U. S. Ccnnera heart of a problem that baffled subtler and more expert andsophisticated minds. There were men around him withmore powerful wills, men with a greater commitment tohumanitarian and radical values. But there \\as no one whosaw better than Lincoln the di
The Lincoln of Carl Sandburg : some reviews of "Abraham Lincoln: the war years" which for the authority of their judgments and the grace of their style, deserve at least the permanence of this pamphlet . CARL SANDBURG. Photograph by Eric Schaal. LINCOLN LIFE xMASK AND CARL SANDBURGS HAND. Photograph by Eihvitrd Steichen. Courtesy of U. S. Ccnnera heart of a problem that baffled subtler and more expert andsophisticated minds. There were men around him withmore powerful wills, men with a greater commitment tohumanitarian and radical values. But there \\as no one whosaw better than Lincoln the dilemma and task of a democ-racy at war: how to win the war with the minimum sacri-fice of traditional liberties and democratic values. In a world in which the leaders of war democracies arethe Daladiers and Chamberlains and Churchills, we havereason to be proud of Lincoln. We have reason to be proudthat with every opportunity for setting up a dictatorship,he did not succumb; with every opportunity for betrayingdemocratic values under the guise of war necessity, he didnot succumb. Long before the end of the war he was giv-ing his best thought to the problem of a humane peace anda constructive plan for rebuilding the defeated states. Ihave
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