The life of abraham lincoln ida tarbell
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Abraham Lincoln and Ida M. Tarbell
Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, was born on February 12, 1809. In honor of his birthday, the Library Services team would like to share with readers of this blog one of the many treasures in our collection: Ida M. Tarbell’s The Life of Abraham Lincoln, Drawn from Original Sources and Containing Many Speeches, Letters, and Telegrams Hitherto Unpublished (1924). This comprehensive history of Lincoln’s life includes his birth in Kentucky, service in the Black Hawk War, time riding the legal circuit in Illinois, and his time in politics.
Ida M. Tarbell is best known as one of the “muckraking” journalists of the Progressive Era, writing exposés that targeted social ills and corporate malfeasance that jeopardized public welfare, and calling for government reforms. But before she established herself as a groundbreaking investigator for McClure’s Magazine, Tarbell received acclaim for her detailed and insightful biographies. These also appeared in serialized form in McClure’s; in fact, as Judith A. Rice notes in her essay “Ida Tarbell: A Progressive Look at Lincoln,” Tarbell’s articles on Lincoln, which appeared between 1895 and 1899, were crucial in increasing the young magazine’s circulatio
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Bound set of Tarbell's classic biography of President Lincoln. Octavo, 4 volumes, bound in full morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, gilt facsimile signature of Lincoln to the front panel, frontispiece portraits, one in color, illustrated with reproductions of original paintings and photographs, marbled endpapers. In good condition. Meant to compete against a Century Magazine series which had been written by Lincoln's private secretaries, John Nicolay and John Hay, Tarbell's 20-part series, The Life of Abraham Lincoln was a massive success and earned Tarbell a national reputation as a major writer and the leading authority on Abraham Lincoln. The popular series, based on Tarbell's own original research and interviews, helped boost McClure's circulation to over 250,000 which climbed to over 300,000 by 1900 and allowed McClure to buy a printing plant and a bindery. Tarbell went on to publish five books about Lincoln and traveled on the lecture circuit, recounting her discoveries to large audiences.