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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... miles in collecting the material which came to the editor simply as a result of this request in the magazine . The work thus became one in which the whole country co - operated . At the outset it was the intention of the editors to use ...
... miles in collecting the material which came to the editor simply as a result of this request in the magazine . The work thus became one in which the whole country co - operated . At the outset it was the intention of the editors to use ...
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... miles from Hodgensville , and about fourteen miles from Elizabethtown . Here he was living when , on February 12 , 1809 , his second child , a boy , was born . The little new- comer was called Abraham , after his grandfather - a name ...
... miles from Hodgensville , and about fourteen miles from Elizabethtown . Here he was living when , on February 12 , 1809 , his second child , a boy , was born . The little new- comer was called Abraham , after his grandfather - a name ...
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... miles northeast on Knob creek , and here the child began to go to school . At that day the schools in the west were usually accidental , de- pending upon the coming of some poor and ambitious young man who was willing to teach a few ...
... miles northeast on Knob creek , and here the child began to go to school . At that day the schools in the west were usually accidental , de- pending upon the coming of some poor and ambitious young man who was willing to teach a few ...
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... miles north of the Ohio river , and a mile and a half east of Gentryville , Spencer County , was in a forest so dense that the road for the travellers had to be hewed out as they went . To a boy of seven years , free from all ...
... miles north of the Ohio river , and a mile and a half east of Gentryville , Spencer County , was in a forest so dense that the road for the travellers had to be hewed out as they went . To a boy of seven years , free from all ...
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... miles with a grist , and waiting so long for his turn , that when it came , he and his horse had eaten all the corn and he had none to grind . This waiting with other men and boys on like errands gave an opportunity for talk , story ...
... miles with a grist , and waiting so long for his turn , that when it came , he and his horse had eaten all the corn and he had none to grind . This waiting with other men and boys on like errands gave an opportunity for talk , story ...
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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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