Introduction to Ida M. Tarbell who delivered this speech on Abraham Lincoln McClure's Magazine, August 1898 Miss Tarbell wrote biographies on Elbert H. Gary, the first chief executive of U.S. Steel, and Owen D. Young, the first chairman of the board of General Electric. She authored a series of articles on the "Life of Napoleon" for McClure's Magazine, and she worked with a former Assistant Secretary of War, Charles A. Dana, ghostwriting his Recollections of the Civil W [...]
