The Manliest Man: Samuel G. Howe and the Contours of by James W. Trent

By James W. Trent

a local of Boston and a doctor by way of education, Samuel G. Howe (1801–1876) led a amazing lifestyles. He used to be a veteran of the Greek warfare of Independence, a fervent abolitionist, and the founding father of either the Perkins university for the Blind and the Massachusetts college for Idiotic and Feeble-Minded childrens. Married to Julia Ward Howe, writer of “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” he counted between his associates Senator Charles Sumner, public tuition recommend Horace Mann, and poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Always quickly to consult himself as a liberal, Howe embodied the yankee Renaissance’s religion within the perfectibility of humans, and he spoke out in want of revolutionary providers for disabled american citizens. A Romantic determine even in his personal day, he embraced a suggestion of manliness that incorporated heroism lower than fireplace but additionally compassion for the underdog and the oppressed. although rarely a guy with no flaws and screw ups, he however represented the optimism that characterised a lot of antebellum American reform.

The first full-length biography of Samuel G. Howe in additional than fifty years, The Manliest guy explores his lifestyles via deepest letters and private and public files. It deals an unique view of the reformer’s own lifestyles, his organization with social motives of his time, and his efforts to form these motives in ways in which allowed for the larger inclusion of devalued humans within the mainstream of yank life.

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