PREFACE

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

BOOK ONE INSPIRATIONAL TALKS WITH FAMOUS AMERICANS.

Success Maxims

I Hard Work: the Secret of a Great Inventor's Genius.

II A "Down-east" Yankee who Dictates Peace to the Nations.

III A Poor Boy Once Borrowed Books Now Gives Away Libraries.

IV A Good Shoemaker Becomes Detroit's Best Mayor and Michigan's Greatest Governor.

V Determined not to Remain Poor, a Farmer Boy Becomes a Merchant Prince

VI Honesty, the Foundation of a Great Merchant's Career

VII A British Boy Wins Fortune and Title by American Business Methods.

VIII A Self-made Man who Strives to Give others a Chance

IX Thrift, the Secret of a Fortune Built in a Single Lifetime.

X Cut Out for a Banker, He Rose from Errand Boy to Secretary of the U. S. Treasury.

XI A Young Millionaire not Afraid to Work in Overalls.

XII A Messenger Boy's Zeal Lifts Him to the Head of the World's Greatest Telegraph System.

XIII Enthusiasm for Railroading Makes a Section Hand Head of the Metropolitan System.

XIV A Factory Boy's Purpose to Improve Labor Makes Him a Great Leader.

XV A Puny Boy, by Physical Culture, Becomes the Most Vigorous of American Presidents.

XVI A Brave Volunteer Fights His Way to the Head of the American Army.

XVII Making the Most of His Opportunities Wins a Coveted Embassy.

XVIII A Village Boy's Gift of Oratory Earns Him Wealth and Fame.

XIX A Chance-Found Book the Turning Point in a United States Senator's Career.

XX Varied Business Training the Foundation of a Long Political Career.

XXI A Magnate, the Courage of His Convictions Make Him a Reformer.

XXII A Backwoods Boy Works His Way through College and Becomes University President.

XXIII A "Jack of All Trades" Masters One and Becomes the Poet of the People.

XXIV A Farm Boy Who Devoured Books Writes One of the Greatest Poems of the Century.

XXV A Famous Authoress Tells Literary Aspirants the Story of Her Struggle for Recognition.

XXVI A Printer's Boy, Self Taught, Becomes the Dean of American Letters.

XXVII A Famous Novelist Atones for Wasted School Days by Self-Culture.

XXVIII A Social Leader, Having "Eyes That See," Earns Literary Laurels.

XXIX Painstaking, the Secret of a Celebrated Painter's Success.

XXX A School Girl, Not Afraid of Drudgery, Becomes America's Foremost Woman Illustrator.

XXXI A Schoolboy's Sketches Reveal the Bent of a Talented Illustrator.

XXXII Rebuffs and Disappointments Fail to Repress a Great Cartoonist's Genius.

XXXIII Being Himself in Style and Subjects, the Secret of an Artist's Wonderful Popularity.

Title: Little Visits with Great Americans, Vol. I (of 2)

Or Success, Ideals and How to Attain Them

Editor: Orison Swett Marden

Language: English

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