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008			070501s2006 nyuabf b 001 0beng d
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050	0	0	_aBX 7260 .B3 A67 2006
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100	1		_aApplegate, Debby.
245	1	4	_aThe most famous man in America : _bthe biography of Henry Ward Beecher / _cDebby Applegate.
250			_a1st pbk ed.
260			_aNew York : _bThree Leaves Press, _cc2006.
300			_axi, 527 p., [16] p. of plates : _bill., map ; _c24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 495-503) and index.
520			_aPresents 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.
505	0		_a"He was the Favorite by all odds; the best Loved Man in Sumter That Day" -- "Damned if you do, damned if you don't" -- "I Shall have the boy in the Ministry yet" -- " If you wish true, unalloyed, genuine delight, fall in love with some amiable girl" -- "It was a fearful thing to pull up a New England Oak by the roots at a ripened age and transplant it to the soil of the west" -- "Humph! Pretty Business! Son of Lyman Beecher, President of a theological Seminary, in this miserable hole" -- " I am a Western Man" -- "A peculiar Minister was needed for so peculiar a Church" -- "Politics in the pulpit" -- "Courage Today or carnage tomorrow" -- "Give me war redder than Blood and Fiercer than fire" -- "My heart is with the radicals, but my emotions are with the Orthodox" -- "I am reliably assured that Beecher preaches to seven or eight mistresses every Sunday night" -- "It is the letters- the letters, Only the letters" -- "What a pity, that so insignificant a matter as the chastity or unchastity of an Elizabeth Tilton could clip the locks of this Samson".
586			_aPulitzer Prize for Biography, 2007.
600	1	0	_aBeecher, Henry Ward, _d1813-1887.
650		0	_aCongregational churches _xClergy _vBiography.
650		0	_aClergy _zUnited States _vBiography.
600	1	7	_aBeecher, Henry Ward, _d1813-1887. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00002202
650		7	_aClergy. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00864014
650		7	_aCongregational churches _xClergy. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00875184
651		7	_aUnited States. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01204155
655		7	_aBiography. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01423686
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