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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... Beardstown , Illinois , to New Orleans , and for that purpose were to join him — Offutt — at Spring- field , Illinois , as soon as the snow should go off . When it did go off , which was about the first of March , 1831 , the country was ...
... Beardstown , Illinois , to New Orleans , and for that purpose were to join him — Offutt — at Spring- field , Illinois , as soon as the snow should go off . When it did go off , which was about the first of March , 1831 , the country was ...
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... Beardstown . This led to their hiring themselves to him for twelve dollars per month each , and getting the timber out of the trees , and building a boat at old Sangamon town , on the Sangamon river , seven miles northwest of ...
... Beardstown . This led to their hiring themselves to him for twelve dollars per month each , and getting the timber out of the trees , and building a boat at old Sangamon town , on the Sangamon river , seven miles northwest of ...
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... Beardstown , a flat- boat bearing the family and goods of a pioneer bound for Texas . At Beardstown he found Offutt's goods , waiting to be taken to New Salem . As he footed his way home he found two men with a wagon and ox - team going ...
... Beardstown , a flat- boat bearing the family and goods of a pioneer bound for Texas . At Beardstown he found Offutt's goods , waiting to be taken to New Salem . As he footed his way home he found two men with a wagon and ox - team going ...
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... Beardstown on the Illinois river , to which point the steamer came from the Mississippi , was , as Lincoln puts it in his circular , “ indis- pensably necessary . " Of course a railroad was the dream of the settlers ; but when it was ...
... Beardstown on the Illinois river , to which point the steamer came from the Mississippi , was , as Lincoln puts it in his circular , “ indis- pensably necessary . " Of course a railroad was the dream of the settlers ; but when it was ...
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... Beardstown in something near a straight direction ; and this route is upon such low ground as to retain water in many places during the season , and in all parts such as to draw two - thirds or three - fourths of the river water at all ...
... Beardstown in something near a straight direction ; and this route is upon such low ground as to retain water in many places during the season , and in all parts such as to draw two - thirds or three - fourths of the river water at all ...
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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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