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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... wrote essays on " cruelty to animals , " harangued his playmates , protested whenever he saw any wanton abuse of a dumb creature . This gentleness made a lasting impression on his mates , coupled as it was with the physical strength and ...
... wrote essays on " cruelty to animals , " harangued his playmates , protested whenever he saw any wanton abuse of a dumb creature . This gentleness made a lasting impression on his mates , coupled as it was with the physical strength and ...
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... wrote thou- sands of letters and travelled thousands of 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 ...
... wrote thou- sands of letters and travelled thousands of 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 ...
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... wrote out a story in my mind . I thought I took my father's horse and followed the wagon , and finally I found it , and they were surprised to see me . I talked with the girl and persuaded her to elope with me ; and that night I put her ...
... wrote out a story in my mind . I thought I took my father's horse and followed the wagon , and finally I found it , and they were surprised to see me . I talked with the girl and persuaded her to elope with me ; and that night I put her ...
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... wrote it , for up to that moment in my life I had never seen that early contribution to human history ; but I want your book , even if it is ones we know about . Some of these books he 29 Abraham Lincoln's early opportunities-The books ...
... wrote it , for up to that moment in my life I had never seen that early contribution to human history ; but I want your book , even if it is ones we know about . Some of these books he 29 Abraham Lincoln's early opportunities-The books ...
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... wrote as well as spoke , and some of his productions were printed , through the influence of his admiring neigh- bors . Thus a local Baptist preacher was so struck with one of Abraham's essays on temperance that he sent it to Ohio ...
... wrote as well as spoke , and some of his productions were printed , through the influence of his admiring neigh- bors . Thus a local Baptist preacher was so struck with one of Abraham's essays on temperance that he sent it to Ohio ...
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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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