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Title: Biographies and stories of Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
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Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: Friends of The Lincoln Collection of Indiana, Inc.

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sters continued the family tra-dition of affiliation with the Democratic party. He too became a lawyer, after graduation from Knox College in Galesburg and established a prac-tice in Chicago. He con-tinued to practice law somewhat unhappily un-til his literary career allowed him to give it up in 1920. Lincoln: The Man was Edgar Lee Masters's first biography. He had al-ways been interested in politics and in history. Biography was im-mensely popular in America between the World Wars, in part be-cause a new style of bio-graphical writing titillated the popular im-agination. This was the great age of the de-bunker, who slaved American heroes in print by the dozens. The prudes and the reli-giously earnest, like Henry Ward Beecher and William Jennings Bryan, were natural tar-gets for this age of revolt against Victorian morality, but soon the political figures were the objects of attack. George Washington fell to the pen of Rupert Hughes in 1926. George Washing-ton: The Human Being &The Hero (New York: LINCOLN LORE
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Ralph Waldo Emerson William Morrow) began by describing George Washingtons mother as a very human, cantan-kerous old lady who smoked a pipe in-cessantly and dragged his pride into the dust by seeking a pension dur-ing his lifetime, by wheedlings and borrow-ings and complaints among the neighbors. Hughes hated Washing-tons first biographer, acanting sentimentalist, Parson Weems, and stressed that Wash-ington was not a man of piety. Chapter XXVIII ended with this characteristic passage: But George Wash-ington had left old England to her own devices. He was bent upon saving himself first. He was deep indebt. He was betrothed to a woman of great wealth. He was going to marry and settle down to the making of money. Which, after all, is one of the most im-portant duties of any patriot. Masters wrote in the same debunking spirit. Inspired in part by the success of Albert Beveridges Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1858

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