Abe Lincoln in Illinois

de Robert E. Sherwood

Winner of the 1939 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The play shows in a series of scenes the critical years of Lincoln’s early manhood up to the moment of his election as president. We see the backwoodsman, a failure at shopkeeping, but a great favorite with friends and neighbors, slowly groping forward through the troubled years in Springfield, at last beginning to realize the great destiny before him.