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100 1 $aApplegate, Debby.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2005080787
245 14 $aThe most famous man in America :$bthe biography of Henry Ward Beecher /$cDebby Applegate.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bDoubleday,$c[2006], ©2006.
300 $aix, 529 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations, map ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 495-503) and index.
520 1 $a"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 Lyman'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."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aBeecher, Henry Ward,$d1813-1887.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50007898
650 0 $aCongregational churches$xClergy$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009121386
650 0 $aClergy$zUnited States$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008101131
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0625/2005054842-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0625/2005054842-d.html
856 41 $3Sample text$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0659/2005054842-s.html
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