Description |
viii, 321 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm. |
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Essay index reprint series
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Essay index reprint series.
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Note |
Reprint of the 1931 ed. |
Contents |
A cub reporter in New York -- The approach of the civil war -- Washington in 61' -- Antislavery meetings -- Peggy O'Neill and General Jackson -- A correspondent at the front -- Poets and writers -- Abraham Lincoln, 1961-1864 -- The tribune -- Journalist at large -- New York traffic in 1879 -- Mark Twain -- Some ladies and an opera -- Schuyler Colfax -- Friendship with Thurlow Weed -- Thurlow Weed in Washington -- A bogus peer: Lord Gordon-Gordon -- Masculine society and the clubs -- In the public eye -- When millionaires confide -- P. T. Barnum at home -- Inventors -- A man of confidence: James Watson Webb -- Trials of a biographer and editor |
Subject |
Croffut, W. A. (William Augustus), 1835-1915.
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Croffut, W. A. (William Augustus), 1835-1915. |
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Journalists -- United States -- Biography.
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Journalists. |
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United States. |
Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Autobiographies.
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