{"product_id":"ever-the-winds-of-chance","title":"Ever the Winds of Chance","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  ","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54258517475672,"sku":"9780252068485","price":26.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780252068485.jpg?v=1778590889","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/ever-the-winds-of-chance","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}