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04-27-2013, 12:41 PM
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Wild guess based on personality and some beliefs: Woodrow Wilson?
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04-27-2013, 12:58 PM
Post: #137
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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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Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom.
--Ida M. Tarbell

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04-27-2013, 01:00 PM
Post: #138
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John D. Rockefeller seems too logical for a Tough Tarbell Trivia question, but I'll guess him.
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04-27-2013, 01:01 PM
Post: #139
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(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.

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Rob,

Was it Robert Lincoln since he did not want anyone writing about his dad unless they had his personal imprimatur?

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04-27-2013, 01:05 PM
Post: #140
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
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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Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom.
--Ida M. Tarbell

I want the respect of intelligent men, but I will choose for myself the intelligent.
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04-27-2013, 01:43 PM
Post: #141
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John Hay?

"There are few subjects that ignite more casual, uninformed bigotry and condescension from elites in this nation more than Dixie - Jonah Goldberg"
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04-27-2013, 01:56 PM
Post: #142
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Sorry Joe, it's not John Hay.

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Rob

Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom.
--Ida M. Tarbell

I want the respect of intelligent men, but I will choose for myself the intelligent.
--Carl Sandburg
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04-27-2013, 04:39 PM
Post: #143
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Next clue.

Although he didn't ever become president, he did serve in elective office.

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Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom.
--Ida M. Tarbell

I want the respect of intelligent men, but I will choose for myself the intelligent.
--Carl Sandburg
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04-27-2013, 07:19 PM
Post: #144
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William Jennings Bryan?

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04-28-2013, 08:30 AM
Post: #145
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No Bill, it wasn't Bryan.

Next clue: Both Tarbell and this person wrote about Lincoln.

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Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom.
--Ida M. Tarbell

I want the respect of intelligent men, but I will choose for myself the intelligent.
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04-28-2013, 09:03 AM
Post: #146
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Edgar Lee Masters?
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04-28-2013, 11:44 AM
Post: #147
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Sorry Roger, it isn't Masters.

next clue: He won the Pulitzer Prize for an earlier work.

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Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom.
--Ida M. Tarbell

I want the respect of intelligent men, but I will choose for myself the intelligent.
--Carl Sandburg
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04-28-2013, 11:55 AM
Post: #148
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One last guess:

Allan Nevins
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04-28-2013, 12:53 PM
Post: #149
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Albert Beveridge
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04-28-2013, 01:40 PM
Post: #150
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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.

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--Ida M. Tarbell

I want the respect of intelligent men, but I will choose for myself the intelligent.
--Carl Sandburg
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