{"product_id":"the-beechers-americas-most-influential-family-hardback-9780807182758","title":"The Beechers; America's Most Influential Family (Hardback) 9780807182758","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Beechers\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAmerica's Most Influential Family\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eObbie Tyler Todd (Author), Mark A. Noll (Foreword by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780807182758\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 27 November 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e360 pages, 15 halftones\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 3 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn a lively and clear narrative, Todd keeps the lives, loves, and projects of moral improvement undertaken by the eleven children of Lyman Beecher interwoven in a chronological history of the Beecher family. A more rounded and intimate picture of Lyman Beecher than we have had, and a great window into the social and religious ferment of the nineteenth century.\"\" - Joan D. Hedrick, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eHarriet Beecher Stowe: A Life\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"The Beecher family had it all, and it's all in Obbie Tyler Todd's wide-ranging book. Piety. Erudition. Eloquence. Activism. Scandal. \u003ci\u003eThe Beechers\u003c\/i\u003e is a thoughtful and entertaining history. Highly recommended.\"\" - John G. Turner, author of \u003ci\u003eThey Knew They Were Pilgrims: Plymouth Colony and the Contest for American Liberty\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"The Beecher family was amazing. Their story offers a window through which to view some of the most influential and often contested outlooks in the era spanning the American Civil War.\"\" - George M. Marsden, author of \u003ci\u003eJonathan Edwards: A Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"This is the best book on Lyman Beecher's legacies, the nineteenth-century Beecher family, and 'Beecherism' on offer.\"\" - Douglas A. Sweeney, author of \u003ci\u003eEdwards the Exegete: Biblical Interpretation and Anglo-Protestant Culture on the Edge of the Enlightenment\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe Reverend Lyman Beecher was once called \"\"the father of more brains than any other man in America.\"\" Among his eleven living children were a celebrity novelist, a college president, the most well-known preacher in America, a suffragist, a radical abolitionist, a pioneer in women's education, and the founder of home economics. Rejecting many of their father's Puritan beliefs, the deeply religious Beechers nevertheless embraced his quest to exert moral influence. They disagreed over issues of slavery, women's rights, and religion and found themselves at the center of race riots, denominational splits, college protests, a civil war, and one of the most public sex scandals in American history. They were nonetheless unified in their \"\"Beecherism\"\" a phrase used to describe their sense of self-importance in reforming the nation. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eObbie Tyler Todd's masterful work is the first biography of the Beechers in more than forty years and the first chronological portrait of one of the most influential families in nineteenth-century America.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"LSU Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52551794819352,"sku":"9780807182758","price":25.67,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-beechers-americas-most-influential-family-hardback-9780807182758","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}