Debby Applegate: "The Most Famous Man in America" (Doubleday)

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Susan Page

Monday, July 31, 2006 - 11:06 a.m.

A new biographer details the tumultuous life and times of abolitionist minister Henry Ward Beecher and the sex scandal that garnered more newspaper headlines than the entire Civil War.

Guests

Debby Applegate

historian and author of "The Most Famous Man in America"

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