{"product_id":"ever-the-winds-of-chance-carl-sandburg-9780252068485","title":"Ever the Winds of Chance: Poems","description":"Now published for the first time, \u003ci\u003eEver the Winds of Chance\u003c\/i\u003e is Sandburg's evocative sequel to \u003ci\u003eAlways the Young Strangers\u003c\/i\u003e (1953), \"the best autobiography ever written by an American\" (Robert E. Sherwood, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e). Though left unfinished at his death, the sequel provides a wry, nostalgic chronicle of Sandburg's college years and early adulthood, a restless decade for a young man still in quest of his calling. \u003cbr\u003e Ever the Winds of Chance opens in 1898 when the twenty-year-old Sandburg, recently returned from the Spanish-American war, enrolls at Lombard College in his native Galesburg, Illinois. Sandburg writes about his job at the fire station; his teachers, inspired or otherwise; his classmates and their camaraderie; his observations on great literary works and writers; and his own writings for the school newspaper, literary review, and yearbook and for the \u003ci\u003eGalesburg Mail.\u003c\/i\u003e But he also includes much about life between school years and after college, recounting his various brief careers as a fireman, salesman of stereoscopic views, advertising copywriter, vagabond, \"jailbird,\" and budding poet and socialist. Together these reminiscences provide an intimate look at the formative years of a preeminent figure in American letters. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Carl Sandburg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0252068483\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780252068485\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Illinois Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.56lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.03h x 5.57w x 0.63d","brand":"Carl Sandburg","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44410362429695,"sku":"9780252068485","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ee3e01ea-87dd-459a-a3fa-86752680c9aa.jpg?v=1697535960","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/ever-the-winds-of-chance-carl-sandburg-9780252068485","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}