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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... thing that I remember of doing there was one Saturday afternoon ; the other boys planted the corn in what we called the big field ; it contained seven acres - and I dropped the pumpkin seed . I dropped two seeds every other hill and ...
... thing that I remember of doing there was one Saturday afternoon ; the other boys planted the corn in what we called the big field ; it contained seven acres - and I dropped the pumpkin seed . I dropped two seeds every other hill and ...
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... things were grated , even ears of corn , in which slow way , enough meal was sometimes secured for bread . Old tin was used for many other contrivances be- sides the " gritter , " and every scrap was carefully saved . Most of the dishes ...
... things were grated , even ears of corn , in which slow way , enough meal was sometimes secured for bread . Old tin was used for many other contrivances be- sides the " gritter , " and every scrap was carefully saved . Most of the dishes ...
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... things unfamiliar to lit- tle Abraham- " one fine bureau , one table , one set of chairs , one large clothes - chest , cooking utensils , knives , forks , bed- ding , and other articles . " She was a woman of energy , thrift , and ...
... things unfamiliar to lit- tle Abraham- " one fine bureau , one table , one set of chairs , one large clothes - chest , cooking utensils , knives , forks , bed- ding , and other articles . " She was a woman of energy , thrift , and ...
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... and we went in . The next night we tried again , and the same thing happened - the horse came back to the same place ; and then we concluded that we ought not to elope . I stayed until I had persuaded her father 26 LIFE OF LINCOLN.
... and we went in . The next night we tried again , and the same thing happened - the horse came back to the same place ; and then we concluded that we ought not to elope . I stayed until I had persuaded her father 26 LIFE OF LINCOLN.
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... 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.
... 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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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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