Little Visits with Great Americans
Intimate Portraits of Progressive Era Leaders in Industry, Reform, Science, Arts, and Public ServiceBy Andrew Carnegie, Mrs. Burton Harrison, Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Alva Edison, Hiram Stevens Maxim, Hazen S. Pingree, Marshall Field, John Wanamaker, Sir Thomas Lipton, Darius Ogden Mills, Russell Sage, Lyman Judson Gage, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Robert C. Clowry, Herbert H. Vreeland, Samuel Gompers, Nelson A. Miles, Joseph H. Choate, Chauncey M. Depew, Jonathan P. Dolliver, Thomas C. Platt, Tom L. Johnson, Jacob Gould Schurman, James Whitcomb Riley, Edwin Markham, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, William Dean Howells, General Lew Wallace, Edwin Austin Abbey, Alice Barber Stephens, Frederic Remington, Homer Davenport, Charles Dana Gibson, Frederick Burr Opper, F. Wellington Ruckstuhl, Henry Merwin Shrady, Marshall P. Wilder, John Philip Sousa, Helen Keller, John Burroughs, Helen Miller Gould, Nathan Strauss, Russell H. Conwell, Frank W. Gunsaulus, Robert Collyer, Robert Laird Borden, Goldwin Smith, S. N. Parent, Andrew G. Blair, James Loudon, Sir William C. Van Horne, Samuel Jones, Philip D. Armour, John B. Herreshoff, Lillian Nordica
Length21h 21m
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Little Visits with Great Americans assembles a revealing cross-section of public speech, reminiscence, interview, reflection, and visual culture from the United States and Canada at the turn of the twentieth century. Its governing theme is civic eminence: industrial expansion, democratic leadership, artistic achievement, social reform, technological invention, and moral aspiration appear as intertwined measures of national life. Varied in register from brisk anecdote and practical counsel to lyrical meditation and public address, the volume includes especially compelling treatments of invention, labor, education, philanthropy, and the responsibilities accompanying wealth and fame. The contributors represent an unusually broad social panorama: financiers and merchants stand beside presidents, legislators, military figures, labor leaders, clergy, educators, naturalists, poets, novelists, musicians, and celebrated artists. Their collective presence situates the anthology within Progressive Era debates over industrial capitalism, urban growth, reform, culture, and American self-definition. Canadian voices further complicate its national frame, while women's intellectual, artistic, and philanthropic perspectives challenge any merely masculine account of public achievement. Together, these figures illuminate the institutions and ideals that shaped North American modernity. This volume rewards readers seeking both historical instruction and a richly varied literary encounter. Its concise selections invite comparison among competing visions of success, service, citizenship, and culture, making the collection valuable for students and general readers alike. Little Visits with Great Americans offers a distinctive forum in which disparate voices enter productive dialogue across profession, region, genre, and social position.
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GenreBiography and Memoir, Literary Classics
Length21 hrs 21 mins
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Publish dateSep 27, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Running A Thousand Miles For Freedom – Incredible Escape of William & Ellen Craft from Slavery (Annotated)
2VOLUME 1
3PREFACE
4INTRODUCTION
5BOOK ONE INSPIRATIONAL TALKS WITH FAMOUS AMERICANS.
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6Success Maxims
7I Hard Work: the Secret of a Great Inventor’s Genius.
8HIS GRANDFATHER WAS A BANKER.
9HIS FIRST EXPERIMENTS.
10A NOVEL METHOD OF TELEGRAPHING.
11HIS FIRST PATENT.
12POVERTY AS AN INCENTIVE TO EFFORT.
13NEVER DID ANYTHING WORTH WHILE BY CHANCE.
14OPPORTUNITIES FOR FUTURE INVENTORS.
15THE WIZARD AT HOME.
16MRS. EDISON IS ALSO AN INVENTOR OF GOOD ABILITY.
17RISES EARLY AND WORKS LONG.
18II A “Down-east” Yankee who Dictates Peace to the Nations.
19THE MAN WHOSE GUNS WILL CLEAR A JUNGLE.
20HIS BRAIN IS BUILT UP OF INVENTIVE CELLS.
21BITING OFF THE DOG’S TAIL.
22PAT’S ANXIETY TO TRY “THE BOSS,” AND ITS RESULT.
23HOW THE MAINE “BACKWOODSMAN” CAPTURED A ROBBER.
24FROM GAS MACHINES TO INCANDESCENT LAMPS.
25THE GENESIS OF THE AUTOMATIC GUN.
26AUTOMATIC GUNS MADE SMOKELESS POWDER INDISPENSABLE.
27HOW LI HUNG CHANG BECAME INTERESTED IN MAXIM.
28HOW A FIRST-CLASS FRAUD WAS EXPOSED.
29III A Poor Boy Once Borrowed Books Now Gives Away Libraries.
30IT IS HARDER NOW TO GET A START.
31MR. CARNEGIE’S FIRST WAGES.
32HIS FIRST GLIMPSE OF PARADISE.
33IT IS BEST TO BEGIN AT THE BOTTOM.
34HE WAS AN EXPERT TELEGRAPH OPERATOR.
35THE RIGHT MEN IN DEMAND.
36HOW TO ATTRACT ATTENTION.
37CARNEGIE AND THE SLEEPING-CAR.
38THE MARK OF A MILLIONAIRE.
39A FORTUNATE LAND PURCHASE.
40THE HOMESTEAD STEEL WORKS.
41A STRENGTHENING POLICY.
42MR. CARNEGIE’S PHILANTHROPY.
43CARNEGIE’S VIEWS ON THRIFT.
44“THE MISFORTUNE OF BEING RICH MEN’S SONS.”
45IV A Good Shoemaker Becomes Detroit’s Best Mayor and Michigan’s Greatest Governor.
46HOW HE BECAME MAYOR OF DETROIT.
47A GREAT CHANGE PROPHESIED.
48HE WAS NOT A DEMAGOGUE.
49GOVERNOR PINGREE’S LUXURIOUS HOME.
50V Determined not to Remain Poor, a Farmer Boy Becomes a Merchant Prince
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