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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... night from the roadside where he lay freezing and carried him on his back a long distance to a shelter and a fire . The thoughtless cruelty to animals so common among country children revolted the boy . He wrote essays on " cruelty to ...
... night from the roadside where he lay freezing and carried him on his back a long distance to a shelter and a fire . The thoughtless cruelty to animals so common among country children revolted the boy . He wrote essays on " cruelty to ...
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... night I put her on my horse , and we started off across the prairie . After several hours we came to a camp ; and when we rode up we found it was the one we had left a few hours before , and we went in . The next night we tried again ...
... night I put her on my horse , and we started off across the prairie . After several hours we came to a camp ; and when we rode up we found it was the one we had left a few hours before , and we went in . The next night we tried again ...
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... night he would croon plaintive songs , and Lincoln himself tells how , fasci nated by this mysterious malady , he used to rise before day light to cross the fields to listen to this funeral LEAVE KENTUCKY FOR INDIANA 27.
... night he would croon plaintive songs , and Lincoln himself tells how , fasci nated by this mysterious malady , he used to rise before day light to cross the fields to listen to this funeral LEAVE KENTUCKY FOR INDIANA 27.
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... night he read and worked as long as there was light , and he kept a book in the crack of the logs in his loft , to have it at hand at peep of day . When acting as ferryman on the Ohio , in his nineteenth year , anxious , no doubt , to ...
... night he read and worked as long as there was light , and he kept a book in the crack of the logs in his loft , to have it at hand at peep of day . When acting as ferryman on the Ohio , in his nineteenth year , anxious , no doubt , to ...
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... night walking up and down and trying to make out what was the exact meaning of some of their , to me , dark sayings . " I could not sleep , although I tried to , when I got on such a hunt for an idea until I had caught it ; and when I ...
... night walking up and down and trying to make out what was the exact meaning of some of their , to me , dark sayings . " I could not sleep , although I tried to , when I got on such a hunt for an idea until I had caught it ; and when I ...
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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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