1media/caroisr-1958-02-19-Speeches.jpg2022-10-25T18:23:33-07:00Dawn Schmitz058a3a82673b345aeb84d7969cae24e0a5c62dd1413249plain2024-10-29T14:37:05-07:00Dawn Schmitz058a3a82673b345aeb84d7969cae24e0a5c62dd1When the two men met in 1948, Sandburg was long established as a Lincoln biographer and poet, and Golden was just becoming known as the colorful editor of the Carolina Israelite. As the years went on they would have a common experience: Both were revered by a large lay readership and regularly punished in print by intellectual critics. They delighted in long sessions on Sandburg’s front porch at his Connemara Farms in Flat Rock, NC, talking for hours and amusing themselves by creating lists such as “The Five Biggest Phonies in America.” Golden’s writing style owes something to Sandburg’s loving treatment of society’s invisible workers and wanderers. They also shared a certain ability to use wicked humor as indictment, as in Sandburg’s line, “Tell me why a hearse horse snickers when he hauls a lawyer’s bones?”
Golden, Sandburg, and Adlai Stevenson were united in friendship by their intense devotion to former first Lady Eleanor Roosevelt.
1media/Harry_Eleanor_Carl (1)_thumb.jpg2023-02-03T11:23:55-08:00Harry Golden, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Carl Sandburg5Harry Golden, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Carl Sandburg at a banquet. Sandburg is signing one of his books.Eleanor is seated, smiling at the camera. Harry and Carl stand in back.media/Harry_Eleanor_Carl (1).jpgplain2024-10-02T10:44:54-07:00Harry Golden Papers MS0020, J. Murrey Atkins Library, The University of North Carolina at CharlotteimageThis Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). If you have additional information about any of the materials in this collection, or if you believe that you own the copyright, please contact us and include a specific description of the material in question.