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Held In The Charm Of Charismatic Beecher.

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From: Hartford Courant (Hartford, CT)
Date: 20060619
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Byline: Susan Campbell

Jun. 19--How do you say goodbye to a charismatic, flirtatious, infuriating man? For 20 years - longer than many marriages - Debby Applegate has been researching the life of Henry Ward Beecher, the brother of author Harriet Beecher Stowe and an influential minister who held enormous sway over the American culture from the mid-1800s until his death in 1887. Applegate's relationship with the complicated, charismatic man started with her sophomore seminar paper at Amherst College, a senior thesis and her subsequent Yale doctoral dissertation. Her ...

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