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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... asking her opinion of it ; and often , when she did not understand it , explaining the meaning in his plain and simple language . Among the books which fell into young Lincoln's hand when he was about eighteen years old was a copy 32 ...
... asking her opinion of it ; and often , when she did not understand it , explaining the meaning in his plain and simple language . Among the books which fell into young Lincoln's hand when he was about eighteen years old was a copy 32 ...
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... asked , ' Who owns this ? ' I answered modestly , ' I do . ' ' Will you , ' said one of them , ' take us and our trunks out to the steamer ? ' ' Certainly , ' said I. I was very glad to have the chance of earning some- thing , and ...
... asked , ' Who owns this ? ' I answered modestly , ' I do . ' ' Will you , ' said one of them , ' take us and our trunks out to the steamer ? ' ' Certainly , ' said I. I was very glad to have the chance of earning some- thing , and ...
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... asked him to write some copies for me . willingly consented . He wrote several of them , but one of them I have never forgotten , although a boy at that time . It was this : " Good boys who to their books apply Will all be great men by ...
... asked him to write some copies for me . willingly consented . He wrote several of them , but one of them I have never forgotten , although a boy at that time . It was this : " Good boys who to their books apply Will all be great men by ...
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... asked where he was educated . " I never went to school more than six months in my life , " he said , " but I can say this : that among my earliest recollections I remember how , when a mere child , I used to get irritated when anybody ...
... asked where he was educated . " I never went to school more than six months in my life , " he said , " but I can say this : that among my earliest recollections I remember how , when a mere child , I used to get irritated when anybody ...
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... asked him to make the rounds of the exhibits , and they went into a tent to see a " strong man " perform . He went through the ordinary exercises with huge iron balls , tossing them in the air , and catching them and rolling them on his ...
... asked him to make the rounds of the exhibits , and they went into a tent to see a " strong man " perform . He went through the ordinary exercises with huge iron balls , tossing them in the air , and catching them and rolling them on his ...
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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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