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3 unusual facts about The Most Famous Man in America


The Most Famous Man in America

The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher is a 2006 biography of the 19th-century American minister Henry Ward Beecher, written by Debby Applegate and published by Doubleday.

In the book's closing chapters, Applegate details Beecher's relationship with Elizabeth Tilton, wife of his friend and associate Theodore Tilton, and its consequences.

After the war, Beecher supported social reform causes such as women's suffrage and temperance.



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