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Eccentricities of Genius is a lively gallery of nineteenth-century personalities, from orators and temperance reformers to explorers, lecturers, actors, and writers. Through affectionate anecdote and sharp observation, it celebrates public influence, private character, and the strange paths by which remarkable people become legends. The book's tone is witty, conversational, and admiring, turning biography into a series of vivid stage entrances. The author also tells his own story, beginning with frontier boyhood, abolitionist influences, and a hard apprenticeship in printing that led him into journalism, the lecture business, and the turbulent postwar West. Those experiences shape his eye for character as he recalls helping launch Ann Eliza Young as a speaker, managing celebrated performers in Utah, and learning to judge people by the company they keep. From there he sketches major figures such as John B. Gough, the great temperance orator whose modesty and power moved crowds to action, and Wendell Phillips, whose conscience was awakened from elite comfort into abolitionist conviction. The book culminates in gripping portraits of Henry M. Stanley, showing both the pressures of fame and the steadfast, disciplined man behind them. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.

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