The Life of Abraham Lincoln: Drawn from Original Sources and Containing Many Speeches, Letters and Telegrams Hitherto Unpublished, and Illustrated with Many Reproductions from Original Paintings, Photographs, Et Cetera, Volumen1Macmillan, 1920 - 484 páginas She is remembered today as a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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... feel free to ridicule , thwart , and ruin his efforts . He was not their man . But I doubt if Lincoln could have realized how the silliness , obstinacy , selfishness , and vindictiveness which the party system PREFACE xvii.
... feel free to ridicule , thwart , and ruin his efforts . He was not their man . But I doubt if Lincoln could have realized how the silliness , obstinacy , selfishness , and vindictiveness which the party system PREFACE xvii.
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... doubt very much if Lincoln was prepared for the explosive and vindictive quality which several of his colleagues showed . Stanton was one of these . There is no question that Stanton attempted to minimize failures in the Army by ...
... doubt very much if Lincoln was prepared for the explosive and vindictive quality which several of his colleagues showed . Stanton was one of these . There is no question that Stanton attempted to minimize failures in the Army by ...
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... doubt , did much to keep the consciences of the pioneers awake . It is diffi- cult to believe that they ever did much for the moral training of young Lincoln , though he certainly got his first notion of public speaking from them ; and ...
... doubt , did much to keep the consciences of the pioneers awake . It is diffi- cult to believe that they ever did much for the moral training of young Lincoln , though he certainly got his first notion of public speaking from them ; and ...
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... doubt , to the fascination which an unknown country has always for the adventurous , and to that restless pioneer spirit which drives even men of sober judg- ment continually towards the frontier , in search of a place where the ...
... doubt , to the fascination which an unknown country has always for the adventurous , and to that restless pioneer spirit which drives even men of sober judg- ment continually towards the frontier , in search of a place where the ...
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... doubt about A. Lincoln's killing the turkey . He done it with his father's rifle , made by William Lutes of Bullitt county , Kentucky . I have killed a hundred deer with her myself ; tur- keys too numerous to mention . " But there were ...
... doubt about A. Lincoln's killing the turkey . He done it with his father's rifle , made by William Lutes of Bullitt county , Kentucky . I have killed a hundred deer with her myself ; tur- keys too numerous to mention . " But there were ...
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