Jean maclean snyder biography of abraham

After enjoying a long and successful career as an English professor at the University of Chicago, Norman Maclean published his first book of short stories at the age of seventy-three.

It proved to be a smashing debut. A River Run Through It and Other Storiessold than 160,000 copies, largely through word of mouth, even before the 1992 film version by Robert Redford had been considered.

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The first in a sweeping, multi-volume history of Abraham Lincoln—from his obscure beginnings to his presidency, death, and the overthrow of his post-Civil War.

The Papers of Abraham Lincoln is a documentary editing project dedicated to identifying, imaging, transcribing, annotating, and publishing online all.

He was brave, intellectual, self-possessed, and cultivated.” The History of The Early Settlers of Sangamon County, Illinois described Calhoun as a “man of.

In the following pages I have endeavored to give the life of Abraham Lincoln, from his birth to his inauguration as President of the United States.

Born in Clarinda, Iowa, in 1902, Maclean grew up in Missoula, Montana.  He was the William Rainey Harper Professor of English at the University of Chicago until his retirement in 1973.

Maclean’s father was a Presbyterian minister and a considerable influence on Norman’s life.

He recalls his father’s origin;

“My father was all Scotch and came from Nova Scotia from a large family that was on poor land. His great belief was in all men being equal under God...My father loved America so much that, although he had a rather heavy Scottish burr when he came to this country, by t