American Masters: The Day Carl Sandburg Died

Sandburg - Poet- Song catcher - American Legend
This 85-minute documentary on Carl Sandburg aired on PBS as part of the "American Masters" series earlier this year and the home DVD adds a few bonus features to the feature.

As narrated by "storyteller" Davis Bates the film provides a visual biography of Sandburg with interviews and comments from two of his biographers as well a using archival video of the poet/author himself (he died in 1967) and a filmed interview with his wife. Television - in its early days - had a wealth of Sandburg appearances (notably on CBS) and those appearances are here too. There's a long section on Sandburg's interest in Abraham Lincoln. His multi-volume biography of Lincoln is still the longest written biography of an individual. We hear about his involvement and in the Socialist Party and there are comments from the late Studs Terkel and Pete Seeger (who, not only reads some of Sandburg's poems, but sings - with his banjo - songs that Sandburg collected in his landmark volume "The American...

A Wonderful Man
My friend saw this on TV, and asked me to order her a copy.
She does not have a computer.
It arrived very quickly, and she was very[pleased.
It is a wonderful portrait of a wondereful man!

Carl Sandburg
Saw this on PBS and had to have in myy library. very informative and inspiring. He was quite a wordsmith

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