Series: Carl Sandburg
Produced by Roy Trumbull
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Carl Sandburg worked at many kinds of manual labor before becoming a reporter for the Chicago Daily News. He knew the city well. He's best remembered for his poetry and his biographical works on Abraham Lincoln. He received three Pulitzer prizes.
Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) won three Pulitzer prizes.
14 Pieces
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The mayor of Gary is indifferent to the working conditions in the steel mills.
- Added: Mar 19, 2012
- Length: 00:01:24
In 1922 the poet Carl Sandburg wrote a children's book about an imaginary place called The Rootabaga Country. It was very popular. Its stories rang...
Bought by WUIS
- Added: Mar 06, 2012
- Length: 00:19:04
- Purchases: 1
The frailty of civilizations and the fate of those who support them.
- Added: Mar 19, 2012
- Length: 00:01:44
This poem was written on the occasion of the interment of the World War I Unknown Soldier.
Bought by KZYX
- Added: Mar 19, 2012
- Length: 00:09:57
- Purchases: 1
This is the poem most often quoted when speaking of Carl Sandburg. Who knows how many children in Illinois learned it by heart.
- Added: Mar 19, 2012
- Length: 00:02:22
A chorus girl marries a high priced lawyer and finds she must share him with 6 other women.
- Added: Mar 19, 2012
- Length: 00:00:59
In time, when function is impaired, the man comes with his cart to make an end.
- Added: Mar 19, 2012
- Length: 00:00:51
- Added: Mar 19, 2012
- Length: 00:01:45
This poem is about a different mob than the one you're expecting. It's the collective mob that is lied to and taken advantage of and which sometime...
- Added: Mar 19, 2012
- Length: 00:01:36
A bricklayer considered suicide when he couldn't marry the woman he loved. Now he just remembers her when a job is going badly.
Bought by Marfa Public Radio
- Added: Mar 19, 2012
- Length: 00:00:31
- Purchases: 1
All actors, regardless of experience and qualifications, have a burning desire to play Hamlet.
- Added: Mar 19, 2012
- Length: 00:01:10
Two boys listen to a Civil War veteran tell about bloody battles. One wants to be a soldier.
- Added: Mar 19, 2012
- Length: 00:01:36
- Added: Mar 19, 2012
- Length: 00:02:17
This account of a plot to assassinate President-Elect Lincoln in Baltimore comes from Carl Sandburg's "Lincoln-The War Years"
- Added: Feb 08, 2012
- Length: 00:39:25
