Henry Ward Beecher: Peripatetic Preacher

by Halford R. Ryan

For approximately four decades, from shortly before the Civil War until his death in 1887, the Reverend Henry Ward Beecher dominated the pulpit and the public platform. Halford Ryan argues that although the ministry was Beecher's career, public speaking was his calling. Combining important orations with a critical analysis of Beecher's rhetoric, this book examines all facets of the Reverend's speaking and preaching. Particularly, it demonstrates...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313263892
• ISBN13: 9780313263897
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 179 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"