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Excerpt from Albion W. TourgeeBoth the demand of prefatory conciseness and the impossibility of expressing in an adequate manner the gratitude I feel toward many persons whose kindly ih terest has been shown me in multitudinous ways, some what disconcert me at this time. To Mrs. Elizabeth S. Warner, now mistress of Thorheim, who placed all of Tourgée's private correspondence, together with masses of unpublished material, at my disposal, and al...

Excerpt from Strenuous AmericansThe dangers of brevity in biography are perhaps as many as are the dangers of length, of interminable facts that do not illuminate, of uninforming informa tion. But in any case, short or long, biography must inevitably be far from perfect, for to trace the myriad ramifications of any personality is utterly impossible.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Fi...

Excerpt from Albion W. TourgeeBoth the demand of prefatory conciseness and the impossibility of expressing in an adequate manner the gratitude I feel toward many persons whose kindly ih terest has been shown me in multitudinous ways, some what disconcert me at this time. To Mrs. Elizabeth S. Warner, now mistress of Thorheim, who placed all of Tourgée's private correspondence, together with masses of unpublished material, at my disposal, and al...

Excerpt from Strenuous Americans Americans have commonly been too much engrossed in living to reflect much about life. As a consequence, although many books have been written about America's most eminent sons and daughters, we have relatively few genuine biographies, for our biographers, also, have in most cases been strictly indigenous in temperament. Like the persons whose careers they record, they too have generally been representative spe...

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