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Book SynopsisHow They Succeeded is the life-stories of successful men and women Each story contains the elements that make men and women successful; and they are intended to show that character, energy, and an indomitable ambition will succeed in the world, and that in this land, where all men are born equal and have an equal chance in life, there is no reason for despair.
Table of ContentsPreface; Introductory Note; Marshall Field; Bell Telephone Talk: Hints on Success by Alexander G Bell; Why the American People Like Helen Gould; Philip D Armours Business Career; What Miss Mary E Proctor Did to Popularize Astronomy; The Boyhood Experience of President Schurman of Cornell University; The Story of John Wanamaker; Giving up Five Thousand Dollars a Year to Become a Sculptor; Questions and Answers: Business Pointers by Darius Ogden Mills; Nordica: What it Costs to Become a Queen of Song; How William Dean Howells Worked to Secure a Foothold; John D Rockefeller; The Author of the Battle Hymn of the Republic: Her Views of Education for Young Women; A Talk with Edison: Dramatic Incidents in His Early Life; A Fascinating Story by General Lew Wallace; Carnegie as a Metal Worker; John B Herreshoff, the Yacht Builder; A Successful Novelist: Fame After Fifty; How Theodore Thomas Brought the People Nearer to Music; John Burroughs at Home: The Hut on the Hill Top; Vreelands Romantic Story: How He Came to Transport a Million Passengers a Day; How James Whitcomb Riley Came to be Master of the Hoosier Dialect; Index.
