Little Visits with Great Americans: Anecdotes, Life Lessons and Interviews. Эндрю Карнеги

XIX A Chance-Found Book the Turning Point in a United States Senator’s Career.

       A SCHOOL TEACHER AT EIGHTEEN.

       THE STRANGE RESULT OF A LECTURE.

       HIS IDEA OF GENUINE SUCCESS.

       XX Varied Business Training the Foundation of a Long Political Career.

       HIS START AS A BOY.

       ALWAYS FOND OF READING.

       A TASTE OF MINING LIFE

       THE ELEMENTS OF SUCCESS.

       ADVICE TO YOUNG MEN.

       MR. PLATT’S CHARACTERISTICS.

       XXI A Magnate, the Courage of His Convictions Make Him a Reformer.

       HIS FIRST SPECULATION.

       AT WORK IN A ROLLING MILL.

       A FORTUNATE MISFORTUNE.

       “PROGRESS AND POVERTY” CHANGED HIS WHOLE LIFE.

       HIS VOLUNTEER GERMAN FRIEND.

       HIS FIRST SPEECH IN CONGRESS.

       TOM REED LISTENED.

       A PEN PICTURE OF TOM JOHNSON.

       XXII A Backwoods Boy Works His Way through College and Becomes University President.

       HE ALWAYS SUPPORTED HIMSELF.

       THE TURNING POINT OF HIS LIFE.

       A SPLENDID COLLEGE RECORD.

       COLLEGE-BRED MEN ARE IN DEMAND

       XXIII A “Jack of All Trades” Masters One and Becomes the Poet of the People.

       THROWN ON HIS OWN RESOURCES.

       WHY HE LONGED TO BE A BAKER.

       THE SUPERSTRUCTURE DEPENDS ON THE FOUNDATION.

       A LITERARY LIFE MEANS WORK.

       A COLLEGE EDUCATION IS AN ADVANTAGE.

       XXIV A Farm Boy Who Devoured Books Writes One of the Greatest Poems of the Century.

       THE MAN WITH THE HOE.

       ONE OF THE GREAT POEMS OF THE CENTURY.

       HIS MOTHER WAS BOTH PRACTICAL AND POETIC.

       HE GAINED VALUABLE DISCIPLINE ON A FARM.

       BYRON’S POEMS INSPIRED HIM.

       ANSWERING HIS CRITICS.

       SEED SOWN LONG AGO.

       XXV A Famous Authoress Tells Literary Aspirants the Story of Her Struggle for Recognition.

       HOW HER BEST POEMS WERE WRITTEN.

       THE CREED.

       SHE IS A PRONOUNCED OPTIMIST.

       DO NOT FEAR CRITICISM.

       MERIT IS NOT ALWAYS DISCOVERED QUICKLY.

       EDITORS ARE ANXIOUS FOR GOOD ARTICLES.

       PERSEVERANCE COUNTS IN AUTHORSHIP.

       WILL-POWER

       XXVI A Printer’s Boy, Self Taught, Becomes the Dean of American Letters.

       EARLY IDEALS.

       ACQUIRING A LITERARY STYLE.

       HIS POEMS ALWAYS WERE REJECTED.

       HIS FIRST EDITORIAL POSITION.

       AN EXPERIENCE IN COLLABORATION.