The Life of Abraham Lincoln: Drawn from Original Sources and Containing Many Speeches, Letters and Telegrams Hitherto Unpublished, and Illustrated with Many Reproductions from Original Paintings, Photographs, Et Cetera, Volumen1Macmillan, 1920 - 484 páginas She is remembered today as a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. |
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... the Merrimac shows well how his mind worked in his dealings with such men . Stanton had a horrible scare over the Confederate boat . He was sure that it was going to destroy the entire navy of the North and lay every PREFACE xxiii.
... the Merrimac shows well how his mind worked in his dealings with such men . Stanton had a horrible scare over the Confederate boat . He was sure that it was going to destroy the entire navy of the North and lay every PREFACE xxiii.
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... North and lay every coast city under contributions , but before it did this , it would destroy Washington and disperse Congress . In his fright , going over Mr. Welles's head , Stanton actually advised that the Boston and New York ports ...
... North and lay every coast city under contributions , but before it did this , it would destroy Washington and disperse Congress . In his fright , going over Mr. Welles's head , Stanton actually advised that the Boston and New York ports ...
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... North and South , East and West . 66 Had they foreseen the political and executive battles before Mr. Lincoln , his preparation could not have been more thorough , exact , and comprehensive to fit him for his Presi- dency in 1861-65 ...
... North and South , East and West . 66 Had they foreseen the political and executive battles before Mr. Lincoln , his preparation could not have been more thorough , exact , and comprehensive to fit him for his Presi- dency in 1861-65 ...
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... North Carolina . There were but two roads by which Kentucky could be reached then , the national highway from Philadelphia to Pittsburg and thence by the Ohio , and the highway which ran from Philadelphia south - westward through the ...
... North Carolina . There were but two roads by which Kentucky could be reached then , the national highway from Philadelphia to Pittsburg and thence by the Ohio , and the highway which ran from Philadelphia south - westward through the ...
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... north of the Ohio river , and a mile and a half east of Gentryville , Spencer County , was in a forest so dense that the road for the travellers had to be hewed out as they went . To a boy of seven years , free from all responsibility ...
... north of the Ohio river , and a mile and a half east of Gentryville , Spencer County , was in a forest so dense that the road for the travellers had to be hewed out as they went . To a boy of seven years , free from all responsibility ...
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