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Reviewed by Jon Meacham. "The Gospel of Love; the 1850s, an inspiring Brooklyn preacher was breaking new ground in celebrity and faith."The Washington Post. Washingtonpost Newsweek Interactive. 2006.HighBeam Research. 29 Mar. 2015 <http://www.highbeam.com>.
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Reviewed by Jon Meacham. "The Gospel of Love; the 1850s, an inspiring Brooklyn preacher was breaking new ground in celebrity and faith."The Washington Post. 2006.HighBeam Research. (March 29, 2015).http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-140603.html
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THE MOST FAMOUS MAN IN AMERICA

The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher

By Debby Applegate

Doubleday. 527 pp. $27.95

After dinner one evening in December 1847, Susan Howard, daughterof a prominent Brooklyn family, wrote a letter to her brother toapologize for a long silence. Much had been happening, she said, but"were I to reduce them all to the first elements . . . I verilybelieve they would all come down to Beecher, Beecher, BEECHER! Heseems to be a subject of universal interest, and he is a curiosity,that is a fact. Don't ask what I think of him, I can't tell you, forthe life of me. I only know that I am intensely interested."

As Debby Applegate's fine new biography, The Most Famous Man inAmerica, makes clear, Howard was far from alone in her fascinationwith the Rev. …

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