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Getting at the inner man : And fifty years on the lecture platform / Robert Shackleton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shackleton, Robert, author.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Cleveland : Duke Classics, 2015.
- System Details:
- Requires OverDrive Read (file size: N/A KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 581 KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 160 KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 583 KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 158 KB).
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Title from eBook information screen.
- ISBN:
- 9781634214346
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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