Abe Lincoln Grows Up Summary
Carl Sandburg

Abe Lincoln Grows Up Overview

Carl Sandburg’s Abe Lincoln Grows Up is a young adult historical biography created from Sandburg’s two-volume biography, Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years, originally published in 1926. It explores the early life of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, set mostly in the American frontier of Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois of the early nineteenth-century, and is illustrated by James Daugherty. Sandburg depicts the ancestry, early environment, family, childhood, and adolescence of Abe Lincoln. Abe Lincoln Grows Up deals with themes of patriotism, manifest destiny, learning and education, familial obligation, and more.