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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - L Verge - 04-27-2013
Wild guess based on personality and some beliefs: Woodrow Wilson?
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Rob Wick - 04-27-2013
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
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
(04-27-2013, 01:58 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.
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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
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.
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Rob
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - J. Beckert - 04-27-2013
John Hay?
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Rob Wick - 04-27-2013
Sorry Joe, it's not John Hay.
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Rob
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Rob Wick - 04-27-2013
Next clue.
Although he didn't ever become president, he did serve in elective office.
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Rob
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - LincolnMan - 04-27-2013
William Jennings Bryan?
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Rob Wick - 04-28-2013
No Bill, it wasn't Bryan.
Next clue: Both Tarbell and this person wrote about Lincoln.
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Rob
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - RJNorton - 04-28-2013
Edgar Lee Masters?
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Rob Wick - 04-28-2013
Sorry Roger, it isn't Masters.
next clue: He won the Pulitzer Prize for an earlier work.
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Rob
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - RJNorton - 04-28-2013
One last guess:
Allan Nevins
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Thomas Thorne - 04-28-2013
Albert Beveridge
Tom
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Rob Wick - 04-28-2013
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