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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - L Verge - 04-27-2013 12:41 PM
Wild guess based on personality and some beliefs: Woodrow Wilson?
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Rob Wick - 04-27-2013 12:58 PM
Actually, Laurie, Tarbell and Wilson were very good friends, so it's not him.
Next clue. This person never became president.
Best
Rob
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - RJNorton - 04-27-2013 01:00 PM
John D. Rockefeller seems too logical for a Tough Tarbell Trivia question, but I'll guess him.
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Joe Di Cola - 04-27-2013 01:01 PM
(04-27-2013 12:58 PM)Rob Wick Wrote: Actually, Laurie, Tarbell and Wilson were very good friends, so it's not him.
Next clue. This person never became president.
Best
Rob
Rob,
Was it Robert Lincoln since he did not want anyone writing about his dad unless they had his personal imprimatur?
Joe
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Rob Wick - 04-27-2013 01:05 PM
Roger,
Sorry, but it's not Rockefeller.
Joe,
Actually, Robert T. Lincoln admired Tarbell's writing on his father. He ranked it up there with Nicolay and Hay's biography.
Best
Rob
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - J. Beckert - 04-27-2013 01:43 PM
John Hay?
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Rob Wick - 04-27-2013 01:56 PM
Sorry Joe, it's not John Hay.
Best
Rob
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Rob Wick - 04-27-2013 04:39 PM
Next clue.
Although he didn't ever become president, he did serve in elective office.
Best
Rob
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - LincolnMan - 04-27-2013 07:19 PM
William Jennings Bryan?
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Rob Wick - 04-28-2013 08:30 AM
No Bill, it wasn't Bryan.
Next clue: Both Tarbell and this person wrote about Lincoln.
Best
Rob
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - RJNorton - 04-28-2013 09:03 AM
Edgar Lee Masters?
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Rob Wick - 04-28-2013 11:44 AM
Sorry Roger, it isn't Masters.
next clue: He won the Pulitzer Prize for an earlier work.
Best
Rob
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - RJNorton - 04-28-2013 11:55 AM
One last guess:
Allan Nevins
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Thomas Thorne - 04-28-2013 12:53 PM
Albert Beveridge
Tom
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Rob Wick - 04-28-2013 01:40 PM
Tom got it right. It was Albert J. Beveridge. Somewhere in my papers I have a memorandum which Tarbell wrote to herself in which she is much harder on Beveridge, but I can't find it. As for Beveridge, he decried what he called the "Tarbellization" of Lincoln studies.
No prize for this one, although when I no longer need it, my coughing pillow can be lent to whomever else might need it.
Best
Rob