Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Sketches of Representative Men, North and South: Representatives of Modern Progress, of the Press, the Pulpit, the Bench, the Bar, the Army and Navy, of Legislation, Invention, and the Great Industrial Interests of the Country
The design has the attraction of novelty, and discovers, we are persuaded, a distinct and fruitful field in the literature of the day. In the lives Of those men who have achieved the suc cesses we have described, and who illustrate the rapid ascents peculiar to the genius of America, there is a valuable fund of interest and instruction. In those early struggles in which they conquered fortune, there is frequently much of the dramatic, and in their triumphs is Often to be found an interesting story Of daring adventure or of quiet heroism.
But, even beyond the personal interest of such narratives, we believe that the work will have a popular and permanent value, and that it will prove an important addition to the bio graphical literature of America.
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