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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... never failed to receive all the aid he could give him . Even a worthless drunkard of the village called him friend , as well he might , Lincoln having gathered him up one night from the roadside where he lay freezing and carried him on ...
... never failed to receive all the aid he could give him . Even a worthless drunkard of the village called him friend , as well he might , Lincoln having gathered him up one night from the roadside where he lay freezing and carried him on ...
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... never been published at all . The source from which they have been obtained is given in each case . No attempt has been made to cover the history of Lin- coln's times save as necessary in tracing the development of his mind and in ...
... never been published at all . The source from which they have been obtained is given in each case . No attempt has been made to cover the history of Lin- coln's times save as necessary in tracing the development of his mind and in ...
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... never became a thrifty or ambitious man . He would work energetically enough when a job was brought to him , but he would never seek a job . " But if Thomas Lincoln plied his trade spasmodically , he shared the pioneer's love for land ...
... never became a thrifty or ambitious man . He would work energetically enough when a job was brought to him , but he would never seek a job . " But if Thomas Lincoln plied his trade spasmodically , he shared the pioneer's love for land ...
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... never doing more " in the way of writing than to bunglingly write his own name . " Nevertheless , he had the reputation in the country of being good - natured and obliging , and possessing what his neighbors called " good strong horse ...
... never doing more " in the way of writing than to bunglingly write his own name . " Nevertheless , he had the reputation in the country of being good - natured and obliging , and possessing what his neighbors called " good strong horse ...
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... never to tell the story , and I never did until after Lincoln's tragic end . " When the little boy was about four years old the first real excitement of his life occurred . His father moved from the farm on Nolin creek to another some ...
... never to tell the story , and I never did until after Lincoln's tragic end . " When the little boy was about four years old the first real excitement of his life occurred . His father moved from the farm on Nolin creek to another some ...
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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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