The Life of Abraham LincolnCosimo, Inc., 2008 M01 1 - 444 páginas She is remembered today as a muckraking journalist, author of such blockbuster exposes as 1904's The History of the Standard Oil Company, which actually contributed to the corporation's breakup in 1911. But in this 1900 work, as charming as it is important, American author IDA MINERVA TARBELL (1857-1944) shows a softer side as she traces, with a laudatory and admiring spirit, the development of the character and morals of Abraham Lincoln. Begun as a project by McClure's Magazine to collect and preserve the reminiscences of friends and acquaintances of Abraham Lincoln while they were still alive, the project grew into a series of articles for the periodical, and then finally this two-volume spiritual biography of the great man, which draws on firsthand memories and other material, including original sources such speeches, letters, and telegrams. Volume I covers Lincoln's life from before he was even born, with the origins of the Lincoln family back to the early 17th century, through his education, his service in the Black Hawk War, his early dabblings in politics, his experiences and attitudes as a lawyer, and the presidential campaign of 1860. |
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Página vii
... asked through the Magazine to communicate with the editor . The response was immediate and amazing . Hundreds of persons from all parts of the country replied . In every case the clews thus obtained were investigated and if the matter ...
... asked through the Magazine to communicate with the editor . The response was immediate and amazing . Hundreds of persons from all parts of the country replied . In every case the clews thus obtained were investigated and if the matter ...
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... asked to prepare a series of articles on Lincoln covering his life up to 1858 and embodying as far as possible the unpublished material col- lected . These articles , which appeared in " McClure's Magazine " for 1895 and 1896 , were ...
... asked to prepare a series of articles on Lincoln covering his life up to 1858 and embodying as far as possible the unpublished material col- lected . These articles , which appeared in " McClure's Magazine " for 1895 and 1896 , were ...
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... asked , " how would you like when the war is over to visit your old home in Kentucky ? " " I would like it very much , ” Mr. Lin- coln replied . " I remember that old home very well . Our farm was composed of three fields . It lay in ...
... asked , " how would you like when the war is over to visit your old home in Kentucky ? " " I would like it very much , ” Mr. Lin- coln replied . " I remember that old home very well . Our farm was composed of three fields . It lay in ...
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... asked a blessing over a dish of roasted potatoes— “ that they were mighty poor blessings . " Not only were they all the Lincolns had for dinner sometimes ; one of their neigh- bors tells of calling there when raw potatoes , pared and ...
... asked a blessing over a dish of roasted potatoes— “ that they were mighty poor blessings . " Not only were they all the Lincolns had for dinner sometimes ; one of their neigh- bors tells of calling there when raw potatoes , pared and ...
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... asked of him , who could " strike with a maul heavier blows " and sink an axe deeper into the wood " than anybody else in the community , and who at the same time was general help for the women , never lacked a job in Gentryville . Of ...
... asked of him , who could " strike with a maul heavier blows " and sink an axe deeper into the wood " than anybody else in the community , and who at the same time was general help for the women , never lacked a job in Gentryville . Of ...
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Lincoln runs for State assembly and is defeatedStore | 89 |
Electioneering in Illinois in 1834Lincoln reads law | 108 |
Lincoln becomes a candidate for Congress and is | 192 |
Lincoln in Washington in 1847He opposes the Mexi | 207 |
Lincoln at NiagaraSecures a patent for an inven | 225 |
Lincoln on the circuitHis humor and persuasiveness | 241 |
Lincolns important law casesDefence of a slave girl | 257 |
Lincoln reenters politics | 279 |
The LincolnDouglas debates | 301 |
Lincolns nomination in 1860 | 334 |
Lincoln is reelected to the Illinois assemblyHis first | 124 |
Lincoln begins to study lawMary OwensA news | 147 |
CHAPTER PAGE | 170 |
Mr Lincoln as Presidentelect | 387 |
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