Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887), American Congregational clergyman, was an outstanding preacher and lecturer. He was probably the best known and most influential Protestant minister in the United State...
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Henry Ward Beecher (24 June 1813-8 March 1887) was the most popular preacher in America during the middle decades of the nineteenth century. Known for his outspoken positions on the temperance, abolit...
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Henry Ward Beecher, clergyman, orator, editor, and author, was considered the greatest preacher of his time. The famous son of a famous father, he also was the brother of a famous sister, Harriet Beec...
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Writing to her brother Henry Ward Beecher in 1851, shortly after the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act, Harriet Beecher Stowe seethed with frustration. "Why I have felt almost choked sometimes with pe...
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The 2007 Pulitzer Prize winners:JOURNALISM:PUBLIC SERVICE _ The Wall Street Journal, for coverage of a 2006 stock-options scandal that rattled corporate America.BREAKING NEWS REPORTING _ The (Portl...
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The Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction was awarded Monday to Lawrence Wright for his book, "The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11," a penetrating analysis of how Islamic fundamentalis...
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Two masters of the arts world finally won Pulitzers on Monday, with 73-year-old novelist Cormac McCarthy receiving the fiction prize for "The Road" and 77-year-old saxophonist Ornette Coleman honor...
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Novelists Cormac McCarthy, Richard Ford and Dave Eggers were among the finalists Thursday night for the 33rd annual National Book Critics Circle prize.McCarthy's "The Road," Ford's "The Lay of the ...
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Comments from Pulitzer Prize winners:"One of the most important missions of The Wall Street Journal is to expose ills in business so that they can be corrected. And this coverage ... resulted in mo...
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“A mixture of Yankee transcendentalism and New York rowdyism and, what must be surprising to both these elements, they here seem to fuse and combine with the most perfect harmony.” This...
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“A mixture of Yankee transcendentalism and New York rowdyism and, what must be surprising to both these elements, they here seem to fuse and combine with the most perfect harmony.” This...
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Winners and finalists for the 2007 Pulitzer Prizes. Pulitzer juries make up to three recommendations in each category without listing them in order of preference. The Pulitzer Board, which awards t...
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With no single event dominating front pages in the manner of Hurricane Katrina or Sept. 11, the Pulitzer Prizes were scattered among 13 news organizations on a variety of subjects, and a live jazz ...
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Henry Ward Beecher
Henry Ward Beecher
2007 Pulitzer Prize winners
