Ebook: How Lincoln learned to read: twelve great Americans and the educations that made them

Wolff presents an engaging, provocative history of American ideas, told through the educations (both in and out of school) of 12 great figures, from Benjamin Franklin to Elvis Presley.;Prologue: The present -- Ben [Benjamin Franklin] -- Naddy [Abigail Smith] -- Andy [Andrew Jackson] -- Belle [Belle Hardenbergh] -- Abe [Abraham Lincoln] -- Thocmetony [Winnemucca: Peabody Indian School for Paiutes] -- Henry [Henry Ford] -- Willie [W.E.B. Du Bois] -- Helen [Helen Keller] -- Rachel [Rachel Carson] -- Jack [John F. Kennedy] -- Elvis [Elvis Presley] -- Epilogue: The present.