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<p>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&#8212;especially his sister, Harriet Beecher Stowe, who penned the century&#8217;s bestselling book <i>Uncle Tom&#8217;s Cabin</i>. But when pushed into the ministry, the charismatic Beecher found international fame by shedding his father Lyman's Old Testament&#8211;style fire-and-brimstone theology and instead preaching a New Testament&#8211;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&#8217;s number one tourist attraction, so wildly popular that the ferries from Manhattan to Brooklyn were dubbed &#8220;Beecher Boats.&#8221; <br><br>Beecher inserted himself into nearly every important drama of the era&#8212;among them the antislavery and women&#8217;s suffrage movements, the rise of the entertainment industry and tabloid press, and controversies ranging from Darwinian evolution to presidential politics. He was notor

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Author

Applegate, Debby

Publisher

Image Books, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780385513975

Category

history

Subjects

Philosophy, Historical Fiction, Memoir

Rating

3.9 / 5 (679 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14