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Title: American Men of Action

Author: Burton E. Stevenson

Release Date: August 10, 2005 [EBook #16508]

Language: English

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AMERICAN
MEN OF ACTION

BY

BURTON E. STEVENSON

AUTHOR OF "A GUIDE TO BIOGRAPHY--MEN OF MIND,"
"A SOLDIER OF VIRGINIA," ETC.; COMPILER OF
"DAYS AND DEEDS--POETRY," "DAYS AND
DEEDS--PROSE," ETC.

GARDEN CITY NEW YORK:

DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY

1913

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COPYRIGHT, 1909, 1910, BY

DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY

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[Illustration: WASHINGTON]

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I.--A TALK ABOUT BIOGRAPHY

II.--THE BEGINNERS

Summary to Chapter II

III.--WASHINGTON TO LINCOLN

Summary to Chapter III

IV--LINCOLN AND HIS SUCCESSORS

Summary to Chapter IV

V--STATESMEN

Summary to Chapter V

VI.--PIONEERS

Summary to Chapter VI

VII.--GREAT SOLDIERS

Summary to Chapter VII

VIII.--GREAT SAILORS

Summary to Chapter VIII

INDEX

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Washington _Frontispiece_

Columbus

Jefferson

Jackson

Lincoln

Cleveland

Franklin

Webster

Boone

Grant

Lee

Dewey

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AMERICAN MEN OF ACTION

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CHAPTER I

A TALK ABOUT BIOGRAPHY

No doubt most of you think biography dull reading. You would much rather
sit down with a good story. But have you ever thought what a story is?
It is nothing but a bit of make-believe biography.

Let us see, in the first place, just what biography means. It is formed
from two Greek words, "bios," meaning life, and "graphein," meaning to
write: life-writing. In other words, a biography is the story