Biography
Mr. Lincoln’s T-Mails: The Untold Story of How Abraham Lincoln Used the Telegraph to Win the Civil War
- Hardcover: 256 pages
- Publisher: Collins Business (October 31, 2006)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 006112978X
The Internet has sparked interest in its predecessor, the telegraph (Tom Standage’s The Victorian Internet, 1998); here is a case study in the trend. Applying “early adopter” buzzwords to Lincoln, Wheeler’s inquiry into his use of the telegraph has the spirit of a management consultant appraising a client’s leadership style. The author relates that Lincoln personally sent out 1,000 telegrams during the Civil War, learning along the way what was or wasn’t effective. Initially an intermittent user, Lincoln at times was so reliant on rapid communication that he spent nights at the War Department’s telegraph office. Every Lincoln reader is familiar with this image, and Wheeler taps into this common memory by quoting Lincoln’s telegraphic words on these occasions. They group most numerously around specific battles (e.g., 1862’s Second Battle of Bull Run) and Lincoln’s reprieves of condemned soldiers.
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A Century of Nobel Prize Recipients
- Ring-bound: 300 pages
- Publisher: Marcel Dekker (March 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0824748182
Grade 9 Up–This eye-catching resource profiles no fewer than 450 scientists. The volume is arranged first by discipline, then by date, covering laureates from 1901 to 2001. The introduction to each section describes 20th-century advances, such as the synthesis of such compounds as ammonia, fertilizers, and plastics, and recent research in molecular, supra molecular, and materials chemistry. Individual entries include a portrait, birthdate and place, description and fruition of the research, and career development. Entry style varies slightly in the separately authored sections–physics essays contain quotes and hobbies, chemistry and medicine essays include fathers’ occupations. Essays on notable laureates such as Enrico Fermi, Thomas Hunt Morgan, and Linus Pauling
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Endurance: Winning Life’s Majors the Phil Mickelson Wa
- Hardcover: 224 pages
- Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (March 28, 2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0471720879
ENDURANCE Winning Life’s Majors the Phil Mickelson Way For the first twelve years of his career, Phil Mickelson was one of the world’s most skilled, successful, and beloved professional golfers. He also spent most of that period under the cloud of a different title”The best golfer never to win a Major.” Mickelson’s persistence and talent were finally and dramatically rewarded with his heart-stopping, come-from-behind victory at the 2004 Masters. Endurance traces Phil Mickelson’s golfing career from the day he shot an amazing 144 as a three-year-old to his Masters victory and beyond.
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