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Getting at the Inner Man: And Fifty Years on the Lecture Platform

By Robert Shackleton

Book information

Publisher
Duke Classics
Year
2015
ISBN
9781634214346
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
160 kB (163597 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2022-11-02 00:03:37
Biography & Autobiography; Essays; Nonfiction; BIO

Description

American minister and public speaker Russell Conwell was one of the most fascinating figures of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Among many other accomplishments, Conwell composed one of the most popular essays of the period, Acres of Diamonds, which he went on to deliver as a speech more than 6,000 times in locations all over the world. He also founded Temple University. This short biographical sketch of Conwell outlines his life and contributions.

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