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From the Easy Chair Vol. 1

by George William CURTIS (1824 - 1892)

Edward Everett in 1862

George William Curtis was a writer and public speaker. He was editor of Harper's Weekly and one of the founders of the American Republican party, and served Ulysses S. Grant; although he split from the party in the 1880s over the choice of presidential candidate. He was an original member of the New York Board of Education. This anthology of essays is the first of a three volume work, showing his broad knowledge and interest. - Summary by Lynne Thompson

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Listen next episodes of From the Easy Chair Vol. 1:
A Chinese Critic , A Little Dinner with Thackeray , At the Opera in 1864 , Cecilia Playing , Dickens Reading (1867) , Easter Bonnets , Emerson Lecturing , Holiday Sauntering , Honestus at the Caucus , Jenny Lind , Mrs. Grundy and the Cosmopolitan , Phillis , Players , Rip Van Winkle , Robert Browning in Florence , Sarah Shaw Russell , Shops and Shopping , Street Music , Thalberg and Other Pianists (1871) , The Academy Dinner in Arcadia , The Mannerless Sex , The Town , Thoreau and my Lady Cavaliere , Unmusical Boxes , Urbs and Rus , Wendell Phillips at Harvard (1881)