Robert Shaplen
Author
Publisher
McNally Editions
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"On the night of July 3, 1870, Elizabeth Tilton confessed to her husband that she'd had an affair with their pastor, Henry Ward Beecher. This secret would soon transfix America, for Beecher was the most famous preacher of the day, founder of the most fashionable church in Brooklyn Heights, a presidential hopeful, an influential supporter of abolition, and a leader of the campaign for women's suffrage. When Beecher tried to silence the Tiltons, it...
Author
Series
Harper colophon books volume CN 92 L
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
[1966]
Language
English