Download or read book From Canal Boy to President Illustrated written by Horatio Alger, Jr and published by . This book was released on 2014-08-16 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book From Canal Boy to President written by Horatio Alger (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book From Canal Boy to President Or the Boyhood and Manhood of James A Garfield written by Alger Horatio and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Download or read book From Canal Boy to President written by Horatio Alger and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book From Canal Boy to President Or The Boyhood and Manhood of James A Garfield written by Horatio Alger (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
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Download or read book From Canal Boy to President The Boyhood and Manhood of James A Garfield written by Horatio Alger and published by Alpha Edition. This book was released on 2019-01-16 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book From Canal Boy to President Or the Boyhood and Manhood of James A Garfield written by Jr. Horatio Jr. Horatio Alger and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Canal Boy to President; Or, the Boyhood and Manhood of James A. Garfield by Jr. Horatio Alger
Download or read book From Canal Boy to President written by Horatio Alger Jr. and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-01-17 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horatio Alger Jr. was an American writer best known for his rags to riches novels. Alger Jr. also wrote a popular biography on James Garfield, the 20th president of the United States.
Download or read book From Canal Boy to President Or the Boyhood and Manhood of James A Garfield written by Horatio Jr. Alger and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-28 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book From Canal Boy to President written by Horatio Alger Jr and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-12-03 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Boyhood and Manhood of James A. Garfield
Download or read book From Canal Boy to President Illustrated written by Horatio Alger and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Canal Boy who Became President written by Frederic T. Gammon and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book From Canal Boy to President written by Horatio Alger, Jr and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-30 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This idea was probably too advanced for Jimmy's comprehension, for he was but four years of age, and the youngest of a family of four children. His father had died two years before, leaving a young widow, and four children, the eldest but nine, in sore straits. A long and severe winter lay before the little family, and they had but little corn garnered to carry them through till the next harvest. But the young widow was a brave woman and a devoted mother."God will provide for us," she said, but sometimes it seemed a mystery how that provision was to come. More than once, when the corn was low in the bin, she went to bed without her own supper, that her four children, who were blessed with hearty appetites, might be satisfied. But when twelve months had gone by, and the new harvest came in, the fields which she and her oldest boy had planted yielded enough to place them beyond the fear of want. God did help them, but it was because they helped themselves.
Download or read book From Canal Boy to President Annotated and Illustrated written by Horatio Horatio Alger Jr. and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-30 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *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.
Download or read book From Canal Boy to President written by Jr. Horatio Alger and published by Book Jungle. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
