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09-01-2012, 08:52 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-01-2012 08:52 AM by Rob Wick.)
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A Tarbell title
Coming up with a title for a book is almost as important as writing the book itself. It is a title that initially "sells" the book to a publisher. For me, the best way to find a title is to find something that seems to encapsulate the work of the author taken from either his/her own words or the words of another. I think I've hit on something.
I've decided to tentatively give my book the title Star Seeker After Truth: Ida M. Tarbell's Study of Abraham Lincoln. It comes from a letter to Tarbell by a woman named Jane Hamand, who donated her collection of Ann Rutledge-related material to the Decatur (Ill.) Public Library. On December 21, 1922, Hamand wrote to Tarbell: Ah my dear Miss Tarbell, you are the star Seeker after Truth; this fact is borne in upon the mind of the reader in every line and between the lines and for this I love and honor you. Not too bad, if I say so myself. Best 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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A Tarbell title - Rob Wick - 09-01-2012 08:52 AM
RE: A Tarbell title - Joe Di Cola - 09-01-2012, 08:54 AM
RE: A Tarbell title - LincolnMan - 09-01-2012, 08:59 AM
RE: A Tarbell title - Gene C - 09-01-2012, 06:50 PM
RE: A Tarbell title - Rob Wick - 09-01-2012, 10:23 PM
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