James Parton: 16 books

4 works of James Parton English-born American biographer (1822-1891) This ebook presents a collection of 4 works of James Parton. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected. Table of Contents: - Captains of Industry - Caricature and Other Comic Art - Famous Americans of Recent Times - Revolutionary Heroes and Other Historical Papers

Captains of Industry James Parton, english-born American biographer (1822-1891) This ebook presents «Captains of Industry», from James Parton. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents -01- About this book -02- PREFACE...

Famous Americans of Recent Times James Parton, english-born American biographer (1822-1891) This ebook presents «Famous Americans of Recent Times», from James Parton. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents -01- About this book...

Revolutionary Heroes James Parton, english-born American biographer (1822-1891) This ebook presents «Revolutionary Heroes», from James Parton. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents -01- About this book -02- INTRODUCTION...

Caricature and Other Comic Art James Parton, english-born American biographer (1822-1891) This ebook presents «Caricature and Other Comic Art», from James Parton. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents -01- About this book -02-...

James Parton was born in Canterbury, England, February 9, 1822. When five years old he was brought to America and given an education in the schools of New York City, and at White Plains, N. Y. Subsequently he engaged in teaching in Philadelphia and New York City, and for three years was a contributor...

Horace Greeley (1811–1872) was an American newspaper editor whose New York Tribune was the country’s most influential periodical from the 1840s to the 1870s. James Parton’s biography of the legendary Greeley examines his life and the events that shaped him, “simply and solely because I liked...

Just before his death, the popular American biographer completed the tumultuous life story of America’s seventh President, in all its color and scope. Here are Old Hickory’s childhood, education, law career, duels, military battles, and political campaigns. Parton covers Jackson’s nation-shaping...

The close of the war removes the period preceding it to a great distance from us, so that we can judge its public men as though we were the "posterity" to whom they sometimes appealed. James Buchanan still haunts the neighborhood of Lancaster, a living man, giving and receiving dinners, paying his taxes,...

A biographic sketch of the German that came to America and became the richest American of his time through fur trading and real estate investments.

The design of the projector of this volume was, that it should contain the Best of the shorter humorous poems in the literatures of England and the United States, except: Poems so local or cotemporary in subject or allusion, as not to be readily understood by the modern American reader; Poems which,...

This short sketch of the well educated and cultivated daughter of Aaron Burr highlights her relationship with her father, through all his trials.

In this volume there is, I believe, a greater variety of pictures of a comic and satirical cast than was ever before presented at one view. Many nations, ancient and modern, pagan and Christian, are represented in it, as well as most of the names identified with art of this nature. The extraordinary...