Intimate View of Robert G. Ingersoll

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Biography & Autobiography

Authors: I. Newton Baker In Year : 1920

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Intimate View of Robert G. Ingersoll

Chapter 1, An Intimate View
Chapter 2, As A Lawyer
Chapter 3, In His Office
Chapter 4, As Orator and Writer (and Ebon's Eulogy)
Chapter 5, His Method In Composition
Chapter 6, Liberty
Chapter 7, Part I, The Dresden Edition, Optimism vs Pessimism, Intellectual Intimates, Philanthropy, Smoking, Mistakes and Slanders
Chapter 7, Part II, Abuse vs. Argument, Obscene Literature, Agnosticism, Immortality, God, Religion, My Bible
Chapter 8, On Eternal Punishment, True Consolation, Providence, Miracles, Nature and Man, Iconoclasm
Chapters 9 & 10 - His View of Christ; His Creed: "Declaration of The Free"
Chapter 11, His Personality
Chapter 12, His Last Illness and Death

Written as a tribute to Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll after his death, by Isaac Newton Baker, his secretary of 14 years, and presented to the Ingersoll family. Later expanded and published by the family so the world could learn more about the public and private life, personality, work, thoughts and ideals of the most famous orator of the late 1800's, also dubbed "The Greatest Agnostic Of the Century". - Summary by Michele Fry