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| Author | Debby Applegate |
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| Genre | biography |
| Publisher | Doubleday |
Publication date | 2006 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Pages | 527 |
| Awards | Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography |
| ISBN | 978-0-385-51397-5 |
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. The book describes Beecher's childhood, ministry, support for the abolition of slavery and other social causes, and widely publicized 1875 trial for adultery.
Before publishing the book, Applegate researched and wrote about Beecher for twenty years, starting when she was an undergraduate student at Beecher's alma mater, Amherst College.[1] The book was generally well received by critics. In 2007, it was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.[2]
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