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THE BEECHERS: An American Family in the Nineteenth Century.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper & Row, (1981) dj. Hardcover first edition - A "major biography of a fascinating, complex, and enormously influential family [which]covers an entire era of American history - the nineteenth century. Almost every member of the Beecher family, from the patriarch, Lyman (1772-1863), through his eleven surviving sons and daughters, became intimately involved in most of the major issues of their day: the liberalizing of early Puritanism, antislavery ferment, the Civil War, and Women's Rights." Among the notable members were Henry Ward Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Isabella Beecher Hooker. Illustrated with photographs. Notes and sources, selected bibliography, index. xvii, 653 pp. ISBN: 0-060148594.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (price-clipped)
Book ID: 88469More details Price: $23.50