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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... boats , which dodged in and out and turned inquisitive noses up all the creeks and bayous ; great fleets from the Alleghanies , made up of a score or more of timber rafts , and manned by forty or fifty rough boatmen ; " Orleans boats ...
... boats , which dodged in and out and turned inquisitive noses up all the creeks and bayous ; great fleets from the Alleghanies , made up of a score or more of timber rafts , and manned by forty or fifty rough boatmen ; " Orleans boats ...
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... got the consent of my mother to go , and had constructed a flat- boat large enough to take the few barrels of things we had gathered to New Orleans . A steamer was going down the river . We have , you know , no wharves 38 LIFE OF LINCOLN.
... got the consent of my mother to go , and had constructed a flat- boat large enough to take the few barrels of things we had gathered to New Orleans . A steamer was going down the river . We have , you know , no wharves 38 LIFE OF LINCOLN.
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... boat , the steamer stop- ping , and taking them on board . I was contemplating my new boat , and wondering whether I could make it stronger or improve it in any part , when two men with trunks came down to the shore in carriages , and ...
... boat , the steamer stop- ping , and taking them on board . I was contemplating my new boat , and wondering whether I could make it stronger or improve it in any part , when two men with trunks came down to the shore in carriages , and ...
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... boating , store - keeping - and make the most of it , thankful if thereby he earned his bed and board and yearly suit of jeans , was apparently all there was before Abraham Lincoln in 1830 , when he started out for himself . Through the ...
... boating , store - keeping - and make the most of it , thankful if thereby he earned his bed and board and yearly suit of jeans , was apparently all there was before Abraham Lincoln in 1830 , when he started out for himself . Through the ...
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... boat at Beardstown . This led to their hiring themselves to him for twelve dollars per month each , and getting the timber out of the trees , and building a boat at old Sangamon town , on the Sangamon river , seven miles northwest of ...
... boat at Beardstown . This led to their hiring themselves to him for twelve dollars per month each , and getting the timber out of the trees , and building a boat at old Sangamon town , on the Sangamon river , seven miles northwest 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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