Little Visits with Great Americans, Vol. 1 (of 2)
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- Or Success, Ideals and How to Attain Them
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1. LITTLE VISITS WITH GREAT AMERICANS2. PREFACE3. INTRODUCTION4. Success Maxims5. I Hard Work: the Secret of a Great Inventor’s Genius.6. II A “Down-east” Yankee who Dictates Peace to the Nations.7. III A Poor Boy Once Borrowed Books Now Gives Away Libraries.8. IV A Good Shoemaker Becomes Detroit’s Best Mayor and Michigan’s Greatest Governor.9. V Determined not to Remain Poor, a Farmer Boy Becomes a Merchant Prince10. VI Honesty, the Foundation of a Great Merchant’s Career11. VII A British Boy Wins Fortune and Title by American Business Methods.12. VIII A Self-made Man who Strives to Give others a Chance13. IX Thrift, the Secret of a Fortune Built in a Single Lifetime.14. X Cut Out for a Banker, He Rose from Errand Boy to Secretary of the U. S. Treasury.15. XI A Young Millionaire not Afraid to Work in Overalls.16. XII A Messenger Boy’s Zeal Lifts Him to the Head of the World’s Greatest Telegraph System.17. XIII Enthusiasm for Railroading Makes a Section Hand Head of the Metropolitan System.18. XIV A Factory Boy’s Purpose to Improve Labor Makes Him a Great Leader.19. XV A Puny Boy, by Physical Culture, Becomes the Most Vigorous of American Presidents.20. XVI A Brave Volunteer Fights His Way to the Head of the American Army.21. XVII Making the Most of His Opportunities Wins a Coveted Embassy.22. XVIII A Village Boy’s Gift of Oratory Earns Him Wealth and Fame.23. XIX A Chance-Found Book the Turning Point in a United States Senator’s Career.24. XX Varied Business Training the Foundation of a Long Political Career.25. XXI A Magnate, the Courage of His Convictions Make Him a Reformer.26. XXII A Backwoods Boy Works His Way through College and Becomes University President.27. XXIII A “Jack of All Trades” Masters One and Becomes the Poet of the People.28. XXIV A Farm Boy Who Devoured Books Writes One of the Greatest Poems of the Century.29. XXV A Famous Authoress Tells Literary Aspirants the Story of Her Struggle for Recognition.30. XXVI A Printer’s Boy, Self Taught, Becomes the Dean of American Letters.31. XXVII A Famous Novelist Atones for Wasted School Days by Self-Culture.32. XXVIII A Social Leader, Having “Eyes That See,” Earns Literary Laurels.33. XXIX Painstaking, the Secret of a Celebrated Painter’s Success.34. XXX A School Girl, Not Afraid of Drudgery, Becomes America’s Foremost Woman Illustrator.35. XXXI A Schoolboy’s Sketches Reveal the Bent of a Talented Illustrator.36. XXXII Rebuffs and Disappointments Fail to Repress a Great Cartoonist’s Genius.37. XXXIII Being Himself in Style and Subjects, the Secret of an Artist’s Wonderful Popularity.