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How Lincoln Learned to Read: Twelve Great Americans and the Educations That Made Them
How Lincoln Learned to Read Twelve Great Americans and the Educations That Made Them
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An engaging, provocative history of American ideas, told through the educations (both in and out of school) of twelve great figures, from Benjamin Franklin to Elvis Presley. What makes great Americans great? How did Abraham Lincoln?or Henry Ford, or Rachel Carson?learn the things that equipped them to change our world? I n How Lincoln ... more », Daniel Wolff reveals some undiscovered causes of events in our nation?s history by looking at the education (both in and out of the classroom) of twelve influential Americans, from Abigail Adams to Sojourner T ruth to Elvis Presley. Relying mostly on primary sources, Wolff lets his famous subjects speak for themselves, creating intimate, interlocking stories that together track the nation?s changing notion of what a ?good education? means. As Wolff shows us, the skills that proved indispensable to these individuals? successes?from the rhetorical elegance that Ben Franklin learned as a printer?s apprentice to the winning iconoclasm that John Kennedy developed as a prep-school rebel?changed radically over time. I n the end, those changes amount to a history of American ideas?and a call for us all to consider how we learn what we need to know.
Author:
An engaging, provocative history of American ideas, told through the educations (both in and out of school) of twelve great figures, from Benjamin Franklin to Elvis Presley. What makes great Americans great? How did Abraham Lincoln?or Henry Ford, or Rachel Carson?learn the things that equipped them to change our world? I n How Lincoln ... more », Daniel Wolff reveals some undiscovered causes of events in our nation?s history by looking at the education (both in and out of the classroom) of twelve influential Americans, from Abigail Adams to Sojourner T ruth to Elvis Presley. Relying mostly on primary sources, Wolff lets his famous subjects speak for themselves, creating intimate, interlocking stories that together track the nation?s changing notion of what a ?good education? means. As Wolff shows us, the skills that proved indispensable to these individuals? successes?from the rhetorical elegance that Ben Franklin learned as a printer?s apprentice to the winning iconoclasm that John Kennedy developed as a prep-school rebel?changed radically over time. I n the end, those changes amount to a history of American ideas?and a call for us all to consider how we learn what we need to know.
ISBN-13: 9781596912908
ISBN-10: 1596912901
Publication Date: 3/17/2009
Pages: 352
Rating: 3
ISBN-10: 1596912901
Publication Date: 3/17/2009
Pages: 352
Rating: 3
3.8 stars, based on 3 ratings
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
Members Wishing: 0
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Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
Members Wishing: 0
Reviews: Amazon | Write a Review
Genres:
- Biographies & Memoirs >> Historical
- History >> Americas >> United States
- Nonfiction >> Education >> Education Theory >> History
