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Lincoln's confidant : the life of Noah Brooks /
"Acclaimed as one of the great Lincoln scholars, Wayne C. Temple offers the long-awaited first biography of Noah Brooks, the influential Illinois journalist who championed Abraham Lincoln in state politics and became his almost daily companion during the Civil War. Best remembered as one of the...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Urbana :
Published by the Knox College Lincolns Studies Center and the University of Illinois Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | Knox College Lincoln Studies Center series.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Contents; Series Editors' Preface; Introduction; "Noah Brooks, 1830-1903"; I. From Maine's "Aristocracy of the Sea"; Importance of Brooks; Personal Description; Ancestry; Youth and Education; II. Paint and Printer's Ink; Goes to Boston; Art and Journalism; The Paint Shop; III. Five Years in the Midwest; The Paint and Furniture Business; Community Activities; Land Speculation; Journalism and Politics; Farming in Kansas; IV. "The Plains Across"; Goes to California; Paint and Journalism in Marysville; V. "Washington in Lincoln's Time."
- VI. Companion to LincolnVII. "The Close of Lincoln's Career"; VIII. Naval Officer and Newspaper Editor; Naval Officer at San Francisco; Returns to Journalism; Working with Young People and Recreation; Assistant Editor of Overland Monthly; IX. Night Editor in New York; The New York Tribune; The New York Times and Associated Activities; The Critic Established; A Tour of the West; A Joke on Mark Twain; The American Copyright League; Short Stories and Children's Literature; X.A Club Man in New York; The Lotos Club; The Century Association; The Authors Club; The New England Society
- XI. The Fruitful YearsThe Newark Daily Advertiser; Clubs and Other Activities; Literary Work; Notes; Editors' Acknowledgments; Index; About the Authors