Word: freeman
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...young, or rich or poor, white or colored-come quietly up now and say. 'Billy, tonight I accept Christ.' " The Flame Around the World. Night after night in New Orleans' 16,000 capacity Pelican Stadium, this gaunt young man with the Hickey-Freeman clothes and the eagle-sharp manner is bringing men and women down from the packed stands and up the length of the baseball field to make "decisions for Christ." This would be news enough in that tamed but still sin-ridden city of blues and bourbon. But the flame that is searing New Orleans...
GEORGE WASHINGTON, PATRIOT AND PRESIDENT (Volume VI, 529 pp.)-Douglas Southall Freeman-Scribner...
This is the sixth volume of the monumental seven-volume life of Washington planned by Richmond's late eminent Historian Douglas Southall Freeman (R. E. Lee, Lee's Lieutenants). Dr. Freeman died last year, on the day he finished the concluding chapter of Volume...
This book takes General Washington from his triumphal return to planter's life at Mount Vernon in 1783 to his 61st birthday and the end of his first term as President in early 1793. Long established as first in war biography, Historian Freeman marshals his facts as massively and meticulously as ever in his first study of the mature Washington in peacetime. Washington shines clearly in the hearts of his countrymen as he moves north through a veritable tunnel of rustic triumphal arches to take his first presidential oath at New York City's Federal Hall. By this...
...that he, with the Senate consenting only afterward, would make treaties and direct foreign policy. At book's end, the hero reluctantly decides to accept a second term to avert a widening split between Hamilton and Jefferson and thus save the new republic. And at that point, Historian Freeman's stiff-backed prose comes to a halt. Scribner is now looking for a suitable historian to write the concluding Volume VII, bringing George Washington through his last six years...