Famous American Statesmen (Classic Reprint)

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Fb&c Limited, Nov 28, 2017 - Biography & Autobiography - 428 pages
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With the great, one's thoughts and manners easily become great; what this country longs for is personalities, grand persons, to coun teract its materialities, says Emerson. Such lives as are sketched in this book are a constant inspira tion, both to young and old. They teach Garfield's oft-repeated maxim, that the genius of success is still the genius of labor. They teach patriotism -a deeper love for and devotion to America. They teach that life, with some definite and noble purpose, is worth living.

I have written of Abraham Lincoln, one of our greatest and best statesmen, in Poor Boys Who Became Famous, which will explain its omission from this volume.

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