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Author : Frank Samuel Child
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Boyhood of Henry Ward Beecher written by Frank Samuel Child and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William C. Beecher
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 159605851X
Total Pages : 705 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (96 download)
Download or read book A Biography of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher written by William C. Beecher and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2006-06-01 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A man in the city hotel, and not a little feared because of his brutality, had done something more brutal than usual, and, the facts coming to Mr. Beecher's knowledge, in his sermon on the following Sunday he expressed in no gentle terms his abhorrence of the act, and in very strong language rebuked the man.... As he passed the hotel there were several standing by, evidently waiting for some development. At that moment the man came down the steps with a pistol in his hand. "Did you say thus and so in your sermon yesterday?" "I did." "Did you intend those remarks for me, or were you meaning me?" "I most certainly did." "Then take it back right here, or by -- I'll shoot you on the spot." "Shoot away" was the reply... -from Chapter X Liberal preacher, abolitionist, social reformer, and proponent for women's suffrage, HENRY WARD BEECHER (1813-1887), brother of Uncle Tom novelist Harriet Beecher Stowe, was one of the most fiery personalities in American public life in the 19th century. This stunningly comprehensive and frank 1888 biography-begun by Beecher himself and completed just after his death by his son WILLIAM CONSTANTINE BEECHER (1849-1928) and son-in-law REV. SAMUEL SCOVILLE (1834-1902)-omits not one moment of controversy in Beecher's life. From his arming of antislavery forces in the run-up to the Civil War with rifles that came to be dubbed "Beecher's Bibles" to the shocking sex scandal that dogged him in the 1870s, this is the no-holds-barred life of a man passionate of spirit and strong of will. OF INTEREST TO: students of American history, social activists, readers of biography
Author : Debby Applegate
Publisher : Image
ISBN 13 : 0385513976
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)
Download or read book The Most Famous Man in America written by Debby Applegate and published by Image. This book was released on 2007-04-17 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one predicted success for Henry Ward Beecher at his birth in 1813. The blithe, boisterous son of the last great Puritan minister, he seemed destined to be overshadowed by his brilliant siblings—especially his sister, Harriet Beecher Stowe, who penned the century’s bestselling book Uncle Tom’s Cabin. But when pushed into the ministry, the charismatic Beecher found international fame by shedding his father’s Old Testament–style fire-and-brimstone theology and instead preaching a New Testament–based gospel of unconditional love and healing, becoming one of the founding fathers of modern American Christianity. By the 1850s, his spectacular sermons at Plymouth Church in Brooklyn Heights had made him New York’s number one tourist attraction, so wildly popular that the ferries from Manhattan to Brooklyn were dubbed “Beecher Boats.” Beecher inserted himself into nearly every important drama of the era—among them the antislavery and women’s suffrage movements, the rise of the entertainment industry and tabloid press, and controversies ranging from Darwinian evolution to presidential politics. He was notorious for his irreverent humor and melodramatic gestures, such as auctioning slaves to freedom in his pulpit and shipping rifles—nicknamed “Beecher’s Bibles”—to the antislavery resistance fighters in Kansas. Thinkers such as Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, and Twain befriended—and sometimes parodied—him. And then it all fell apart. In 1872 Beecher was accused by feminist firebrand Victoria Woodhull of adultery with one of his most pious parishioners. Suddenly the “Gospel of Love” seemed to rationalize a life of lust. The cuckolded husband brought charges of “criminal conversation” in a salacious trial that became the most widely covered event of the century, garnering more newspaper headlines than the entire Civil War. Beecher survived, but his reputation and his causes—from women’s rights to progressive evangelicalism—suffered devastating setbacks that echo to this day. Featuring the page-turning suspense of a novel and dramatic new historical evidence, Debby Applegate has written the definitive biography of this captivating, mercurial, and sometimes infuriating figure. In our own time, when religion and politics are again colliding and adultery in high places still commands headlines, Beecher’s story sheds new light on the culture and conflicts of contemporary America.
Author : William Constantine Beecher
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Total Pages : 742 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Biography of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher written by William Constantine Beecher and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philip McFarland
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 1555848664
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (558 download)
Download or read book Loves of Harriet Beecher Stowe written by Philip McFarland and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2008-11-18 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Hawthorne in Concord “brings [Stowe] to life in all her glory, in a book at once so dramatic and so subtle that it rivals the best fiction” (Debby Applegate, author of The Most Famous Man in America). Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin forced an ambivalent North to confront the atrocities of slavery, yet it was just one of many accomplishments of the Beechers, the most eminent American family of the nineteenth century. Historian Philip McFarland follows the Beecher clan to the boomtown of Cincinnati, where Harriet’s glimpses of slavery across the Kentucky border moved her to pen Uncle Tom’s Cabin. We meet Harriet’s loves: her father Lyman, her husband Calvin, and her brother Henry, the most famous preacher of his time. As McFarland leads us through Harriet’s ever-changing world, he traces the arc of her literary career from her hard-scrabble beginnings to her ascendancy as the most renowned author of her day. Through the portrait of a defining American family, Loves of Harriet Beecher Stowe opens into an unforgettable rendering of mid-nineteenth century America in the midst of unprecedented social and demographic explosions. To this day, Uncle Tom’s Cabin reverberates as a crucial document in Western culture. “Often dismissed even by her admirers as a pious faculty wife who just happened to write the book of the century, Harriet Beecher Stowe emerges in Philip McFarland’s biography in all her complexity and genius.” —Charles Calhoun, author of Longfellow: A Rediscovered Life and The Gilded Age
Author : William Constantine Beecher
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 730 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)
Download or read book A Biography of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher written by William Constantine Beecher and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Shannon
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1338608746
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (386 download)
Download or read book Roy Digs Dirt written by David Shannon and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Woof! Meet Roy, an adorable white dog who is wild about digging, digging, digging in the dirt! David Shannon's picture books are loved for their endearing characters and laugh-aloud humor, and Roy's charming naughtiness will remind readers of what they love about Shannon's No, David!, a bestselling Caldecott Honor Book about a boy with a nose for trouble.Although it's a smelly task for those who have to constantly bathe him, Roy's happiness centers on his very favorite thing-dirt-and from sunrise to sunset, he burrows in it, rolls in it, and digs up buried treasures. There's terror in every terrier, and when Roy runs into the house after being sprayed by a skunk, he faces the dreaded bathtub. Readers will see themselves in Roy's childlike delight each time he makes the biggest mess ever.
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Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Harvard University Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harriet Beecher Stowe
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Minister's Wooing written by Harriet Beecher Stowe and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 1859 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mrs. Katy Scudder had invited Mrs. Brown, and Mrs. Jones, and Deacon Twitchel's wife to take tea with her on the afternoon of June second, A. D. 17-. When one has a story to tell, one is always puzzled which end of it to begin at. You have a whole corps of people to introduce that you know and your reader doesn't; and one thing so presupposes another, that, whichever way you turn your patchwork, the figures still seem ill-arranged. The small item that I have given will do as well as any other to begin with, as it certainly will lead you to ask, 'Pray, who was Mrs. Katy Scudder?'-and this will start me systematically on my story. You must understand that in the then small seaport-town of Newport, at that time unconscious of its present fashion and fame, there lived nobody in those days who did not know 'the Widow Scudder.'
Author : Cullen Murphy
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547527071
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)
Download or read book Are We Rome? written by Cullen Murphy and published by HMH. This book was released on 2008-05-05 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What went wrong in imperial Rome, and how we can avoid it: “If you want to understand where America stands in the world today, read this.” —Thomas E. Ricks The rise and fall of ancient Rome has been on American minds since the beginning of our republic. Depending on who’s doing the talking, the history of Rome serves as either a triumphal call to action—or a dire warning of imminent collapse. In this “provocative and lively” book, Cullen Murphy points out that today we focus less on the Roman Republic than on the empire that took its place, and reveals a wide array of similarities between the two societies (The New York Times). Looking at the blinkered, insular culture of our capitals; the debilitating effect of bribery in public life; the paradoxical issue of borders; and the weakening of the body politic through various forms of privatization, Murphy persuasively argues that we most resemble Rome in the burgeoning corruption of our government and in our arrogant ignorance of the world outside—two things that must be changed if we are to avoid Rome’s fate. “Are We Rome? is just about a perfect book. . . . I wish every politician would spend an evening with this book.” —James Fallows
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Total Pages : 1320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Dictionary of American Biography written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeremy C. Young
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107114624
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book The Age of Charisma written by Jeremy C. Young and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates how the modern relationship between leaders and followers in America grew out of late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century charismatic social movements.
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Total Pages : 928 pages
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Download or read book Metropolitan Pulpit and Homiletic Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 932 pages
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Download or read book Homiletic Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Spencer Baynes
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 844 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (986 download)
Download or read book The Encyclopaedia Britannica written by Thomas Spencer Baynes and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : H.W. Wilson Company
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Standard Catalog: Biography Section written by H.W. Wilson Company and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes cumulative subject index of the entire set. 1 v.
