Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Speeches of Andrew Johnson: President of the United States
In the society Of his fellow-workmen he became conscious of his great ignorance, and was possessed with a desire to learn to read. The visits to the workshop of a gentleman who lightened the hours of toil by reading to the workmen, still further aroused the ambition of the young apprentice.
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