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The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher

The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher

by Debby Applegate

527 pages · 2006

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Presents the life of the nineteenth century orator, noted for his support of the abolition of slavery and the suffrage of women, as well as his friendships with some of the century's most famous writers, including Henry Thoreau, Mark Twain, and Walt Whitman.

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