The Life of Abraham Lincoln

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Digital Scanning, Incorporated, Dec 1, 1998 - Biography & Autobiography - 572 pages
Abraham Lincoln's life and times, as seen by his contemporaries, are explored in these volumes sponsored by "McClure's Magazine". Tarbel traveled thousands of miles to collect the materials which came as a result of a campaign conducted by the editorial staff. The books were thus a project in which the whole country cooperated.

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About the author (1998)

Ida M. Tarbell is remembered for her muckraking journalism and her expose of the Standard Oil Company. Kenneth J. Winkle is an associate professor of history at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and author of "The Politics of Community: Migration and Politics in Antebellum Ohio.

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