The Most Famous Man in America
The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher
Written by Debby Applegate
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
Publisher: Three Leaves
On Sale: April 17, 2007
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-51397-5 (0-385-51397-6)
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...
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