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Sandburg grew up up among the ramshackle homes of the railroad workers at Galesburg, Illinois. As a child, he saw the strike of 1888 and the successful electoral campaign that elected strike leaders to the city government there. He later joined the army and went to Puerto Rico, and briefly went to West Point. He later joined the Social Democrats at Milwaukee and became an official organizer and agitator for the Socialist party in Wisconsin. He later moved to suburbs of Chicago. Aside from his poetry, he is most remembered for his laudatory multi-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln. (For a couple of years, my wife and I lived a few blocs from his boyhood home and I used the time to write an article on the rail labor history of the town.) Cheers, Mark L. _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
