From Canal Boy To President Annotated And Illustrated

Author : Horatio Horatio Alger Jr.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 127 pages
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Release : 2017-08-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1549627937

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*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author). *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience. *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors.If I am asked why I add one to the numerous Lives of our dead President, I answer, in the words of Hon. Chauncey M. Depew, because "our annals afford no such incentive to youth as does his life, and it will become one of the Republic's household stories."I have conceived, therefore, that a biography, written with a view to interest young people in the facts of his great career, would be a praiseworthy undertaking. The biography of General Garfield, however imperfectly executed, can not but be profitable to the reader. In this story, which I have made as attractive as I am able, I make no claim to originality. I have made free use of such materials as came within my reach, including incidents and reminiscences made public during the last summer, and I trust I have succeeded, in a measure, in conveying a correct idea of a character whose nobility we have only learned to appreciate since death has snatched our leader from us.

Author : Horatio Alger, Jr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9782765902225

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From Canal Boy to President; or, The Boyhood and Manhood of James A. Garfield Horatio Alger, Jr. (January 13, 1832 – July 18, 1899) was a prolific 19th-century American author, best known for his many juvenile novels about impoverished boys and their rise from humble backgrounds to lives of middle-class security and comfort through hard work, determination, courage, and honesty. His writings were characterized by the rags-to-riches narrative, which had a formative effect on America during the Gilded Age. Alger's name is often invoked incorrectly as though he himself rose from rags to riches, but that arc applied to his characters, not to the author. Essentially, all of Alger's novels share the same theme: a young boy struggles through hard work to escape poverty. Critics, however, are quick to point out that it is not the hard work itself that rescues the boy from his fate, but rather some extraordinary act of bravery or honesty, which brings him into contact with a wealthy elder gentleman, who takes the boy in as a ward. The boy might return a large sum of money that was lost or rescue someone from an overturned carriage, bringing the boy—and his plight—to the attention of some wealthy individual. It has been suggested that this reflects Alger's own patronizing attitude to the boys he tried to help. This version includes new illustrations

Author : Jr. Horatio Jr. Horatio Alger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1721886710

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A fictionalized biography of James Garfield from his log cabin youth in Ohio through his career as educator and service as Civil War general to his 1881 election as twentieth President of the United States, an office he held for only four months before his assassination.

Author : Horatio Alger
Publisher : BookRix
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9783736800991

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From Canal Boy to President (Illustrated) by Horatio Alger Pdf

From Canal Boy to President; or, The Boyhood and Manhood of James A. Garfield Horatio Alger, Jr. (January 13, 1832 – July 18, 1899) was a prolific 19th-century American author, best known for his many juvenile novels about impoverished boys and their rise from humble backgrounds to lives of middle-class security and comfort through hard work, determination, courage, and honesty. His writings were characterized by the "rags-to-riches" narrative, which had a formative effect on America during the Gilded Age. Alger's name is often invoked incorrectly as though he himself rose from rags to riches, but that arc applied to his characters, not to the author. Essentially, all of Alger's novels share the same theme: a young boy struggles through hard work to escape poverty. Critics, however, are quick to point out that it is not the hard work itself that rescues the boy from his fate, but rather some extraordinary act of bravery or honesty, which brings him into contact with a wealthy elder gentleman, who takes the boy in as a ward. The boy might return a large sum of money that was lost or rescue someone from an overturned carriage, bringing the boy—and his plight—to the attention of some wealthy individual. It has been suggested that this reflects Alger's own patronizing attitude to the boys he tried to help.

Author : Frederic Thomas Gammon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Biography
ISBN : NYPL:33433082401880

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The Canal Boy who Became President by Frederic Thomas Gammon Pdf

Author : Jr. Horatio Alger
Publisher : Book Jungle
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1438533209

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Horatio Alger wrote 135 dime novels in the latter part of the 19th century. His stories were rags to riches stories illustrating how down-and-out boys might be able to achieve the American Dream. Alger's stories empathize the need for hard work and honesty as a way to get ahead. Alger describes young men in the city trying to get a head as newsboys, match boys, peddlers, street musicians, and many others From Canal Boy to President: Or the Boyhood and Manhood of James A. Garfield (1831 -1881). He was the 20th President of the United States. Garfield was born of Welsh ancestry in a log cabin in Orange Township, Ohio. His father, Abram Garfield, died in 1833, when James Abram was 17 months old. He was brought up by his mother, Eliza Ballou, sisters, and an uncle. Garfield was a preacher and teacher before entering law. His death, two months after being shot and six months after his inauguration, made his tenure, at 199 days, the second shortest (after William Henry Harrison) in United States history.

Author : Horatio Alger (Jr.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Presidents
ISBN : OCLC:40241949

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From Canal Boy to President by Horatio Alger (Jr.) Pdf

Author : Horatio Alger
Publisher : Alpha Edition
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-16
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9353295939

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From Canal Boy to President: The Boyhood and Manhood of James A. Garfield by Horatio Alger Pdf

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We havent used any OCR or photocopy to produce this book. The whole book has been typeset again to produce it without any errors or poor pictures and errant marks.

Author : Horatio Horatio Alger Jr.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1549677543

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The Backwoods Boy (Annotated and Illustrated) by Horatio Horatio Alger Jr. Pdf

*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author). *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience. *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors.I venture to say that among our public men there is not one whose life can be studied with more interest and profit by American youth than that of Abraham Lincoln. It is not alone that, born in an humble cabin, he reached the highest position accessible to an American, but especially because in every position which he was called upon to fill, he did his duty as he understood it, and freely sacrificed personal ease and comfort in the service of the humblest. I have prepared the story of Lincoln's boyhood and manhood as a companion volume to the life of Garfield, which I published two years since, under the title, "From Canal Boy to President." The cordial welcome which this received has encouraged me to persevere in my plan of furnishing readers, young and old, with readable lives of the greatest and best men in our history. I can hardly hope at this late day to have contributed many new facts, or found much new material. I have been able, however, through the kindness of friends, to include some anecdotes not hitherto published. But for the most part I have relied upon the well-known and valuable lives of Lincoln by Dr. Holland and Ward H. Lamon. I also acknowledge, with pleasure, my indebtedness to "Six Months in the White House," by F. B. Carpenter; Henry J. Raymond's "History of Lincoln's Administration," and the "Life of Lincoln," by D. W. Bartlett. I commend, with confidence, either or all of these works to those of my readers who may desire a more thorough and exhaustive life of "The Backwoods Boy."

Author : Horatio Alger
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783734068454

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Author : Horatio Alger
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
Page : 200 pages
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Release : 2006-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1428031979

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From Canal Boy to President by Horatio Alger Pdf

An account of the boyhood and manhood of James A Garfield from a significant and popular figure in the history of American social ideals

Author : Jr. Horatio Jr. Horatio Alger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 186 pages
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Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Electronic
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From Canal Boy to President; Or, the Boyhood and Manhood of James A. Garfield by Jr. Horatio Jr. Horatio Alger Pdf

From Canal Boy to President; Or, the Boyhood and Manhood of James A. Garfield by Jr. Horatio Alger

Author : Horatio Alger
Publisher : Sagwan Press
Page : 364 pages
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Release : 2018-02-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1376578212

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Author : Horatio Jr. Alger
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 252 pages
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Release : 2022-05-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547013570

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From Canal Boy to President; Or, the Boyhood and Manhood of James A. Garfield by Horatio Jr. Alger Pdf

From Canal Boy to President Or the Boyhood and Manhood of James A. Garfield is a biography by Horatio Alger Jr. Garfield was the 20th president of the United States, lawyer and Civil War military officer who suffered assassination in 1881.

Author : Richard Menke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
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Release : 2019-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108492942

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Literature, Print Culture, and Media Technologies, 1880–1900 by Richard Menke Pdf

Connects British and American literature to a changing media landscape in an era of innovation.