Louis Menand
Louis Menand is an award-winning essayist, critic, author, professor, and historian, best known for his Pulitzer-winning book The Metaphysical Club, an intellectual and cultural history of late 19th and early 20th century America.
Louis Menand is an award-winning essayist, critic, author, professor, and historian, best known for his Pulitzer-winning book The Metaphysical Club, an intellectual and cultural history of late 19th and early 20th century America.
A classic New Yorker account of the Henry Ward Beecher adultery trial recalls a time in America that seems both incomprehensible and familiar.
Robert Shaplen
Foreword by Louis Menand
A wry, instructive, and hugely entertaining account of “one of the most sensational trials in American history” (New York Times Book Review), one that echoes our own ongoing social and political battles.