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No doubt most of you think biography dull reading. You would much rather sit down with a good story. But have you ever thought what a story is? It is nothing but a bit of make-believe biography. Let us see, in the first place, just what biography means. It is formed from two Greek words, "bios," meaning life, and "graphein," meaning to write: life-writing. In other words, a biography is the story of the life of some individual. Now what the novelist does is to write the biographies of the people of his story; not usually from the cradle to the grave, but for that. | American Men of Action 1 American Men of Action The Project Gutenberg EBook of American Men of Action by Burton E. Stevenson This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title American Men of Action Author Burton E. Stevenson Release Date August 10 2005 EBook 16508 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AMERICAN MEN OF ACTION Produced by Juliet Sutherland David Gundry and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http AMERICAN MEN OF ACTION BY BURTON E. STEVENSON AUTHOR OF A GUIDE TO BIOGRAPHY--MEN OF MIND A SOLDIER OF VIRGINIA ETC. COMPILER OF DAYS AND DEEDS--POETRY DAYS AND DEEDS--PROSE ETC. GARDEN CITY NEW YORK DOUBLEDAY PAGE COMPANY 1913 COPYRIGHT 1909 1910 BY DOUBLEDAY PAGE COMPANY Illustration WASHINGTON CONTENTS CHAPTER 2 CHAPTER I. --A TALK ABOUT BIOGRAPHY II. --THE BEGINNERS Summary to Chapter II III. --WASHINGTON TO LINCOLN Summary to Chapter III IV- -LINCOLN AND HIS SUCCESSORS Summary to Chapter IV V- -STATESMEN Summary to Chapter V VI. --PIONEERS Summary to Chapter VI VII. --GREAT SOLDIERS Summary to Chapter VII VIII. --GREAT SAILORS Summary to Chapter VIII INDEX LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Washington Frontispiece Columbus Jefferson Jackson Lincoln Cleveland Franklin CHAPTER I 3 Webster Boone Grant Lee Dewey AMERICAN MEN OF ACTION CHAPTER I A TALK ABOUT BIOGRAPHY No doubt most of you think biography dull reading. You would much rather sit down with a good story. But have you ever thought what a story is It is nothing but a bit of make-believe biography. Let us see in the first place just what biography means. It is formed from two Greek words bios meaning life and graphein meaning to write life-writing. In other words a biography is the story of the life of some individual. Now what the novelist .