1909. The biographical account, Why We Love Lincoln, written by the renowned journalist, James Creelman, originally appeared in Pearson's Magazine. The book begins: While our great battleship fleet thundered peace and friendship to the world, as it moved from sea to sea, stinging pens and voices in one country after another answered that American had suddenly passed from blustering youth to cynical old age, and that the harmless effrontery of our nationality in the past was not to be confounded with the cold-brained, organized, money-worshipping greed of the new generation of Americans.