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 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 Illustrated written by Jr. Horatio Jr. Horatio Alger and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-27 with total page 118 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.
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 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 Thomas Gammon and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 written by Horatio Alger and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2019-09-25 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: From Canal Boy to President by Horatio Alger
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Download or read book The Backwoods Boy Annotated and Illustrated written by Horatio Horatio Alger Jr. and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 116 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.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."
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.
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 and published by VM eBooks. This book was released on 2016-07-24 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CHAPTER I. THE FIRST PAIR OF SHOES. CHAPTER II. GROWING IN WISDOM AND STATURE. CHAPTER III. IN QUEST OF FORTUNE. CHAPTER IV. ON THE TOW-PATH. CHAPTER V. AN IMPORTANT CONVERSATION. CHAPTER VI. JAMES LEAVES THE CANAL. CHAPTER VII. THE CHOICE OF A VOCATION CHAPTER VIII. GEAUGA SEMINARY. CHAPTER IX. WAYS AND MEANS. CHAPTER X. A COUSIN'S REMINISCENCES. CHAPTER XI. LEDGE HILL SCHOOL CHAPTER XII. WHO SHALL BE MASTER? CHAPTER XIII. AMES LEAVES GEAUGA SEMINARY CHAPTER XIV. AT HIRAM INSTITUTE. CHAPTER XV. THREE BUSY YEARS. CHAPTER XVI. ENTERING WILLIAMS COLLEGE. CHAPTER XVII. LIFE IN COLLEGE. CHAPTER XVIII. THE CANAL-BOY BECOMES A COLLEGE PRESIDENT. CHAPTER XIX. GARFIELD AS A COLLEGE PRESIDENT. CHAPTER XX. GARFIELD BECOMES A STATE SENATOR. CHAPTER XXI. A DIFFICULT DUTY. CHAPTER XXII. JOHN JORDAN'S DANGEROUS JOURNEY. CHAPTER XXIII. GARFIELD'S BOLD STRATEGY. CHAPTER XXIV. THE BATTLE OF MIDDLE CREEK. CHAPTER XXV. THE PERILOUS TRIP UP THE BIG SANDY. CHAPTER XXVI. THE CANAL-BOY BECOMES A CONGRESSMAN. CHAPTER XXVII. GARFIELD'S COURSE IN CONGRESS. CHAPTER XXVIII. THE MAN FOR THE HOUR. CHAPTER XXIX. GARFIELD AS A LAWYER. CHAPTER XXX. THE SCHOLAR IN POLITICS. CHAPTER XXXI. THE TRIBUTES OF FRIENDS. CHAPTER XXXII. FROM CANAL-BOY TO PRESIDENT. CHAPTER XXXIII. THE NEW ADMINISTRATION. CHAPTER XXXIV. THE TRAGIC END. CHAPTER XXXV. MR. DEPEW'S ESTIMATE OF GARFIELD. CHAPTER XXXVI. THE LESSONS OF HIS LIFE.
Download or read book From Canal Boy to President written by Jr. Alger, Horatio and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-02-14 with total page 174 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 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 Canal Boy written by Karin Clafford Farley and published by David C Cook Distribution. This book was released on 1978 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relates the experiences of the 20th President of the United States during the two teenage years he spent as a canal boy guiding barges from New York to Illinois.
Download or read book Destiny of the Republic written by Candice Millard and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Candice Millard chronicles the life of President James A. Garfield, from his upbringing to his untimely death. Garfield's short time in office was devoted to cleaning up the corruption that was rife in a country still reeling from the Civil War. However, everything changed when Garfield was shot in the back by a disgruntled office worker. While the president's health slowly declined, a power struggle erupted over control of the administration, and the country's fate hung in the balance.
