1862-1935

A biography of a professional baseball player who dedicated his life to spreading the gospel and became one of the most influential religious figures of the early twentieth century.

Chronicles the tempestuous marriage between John Armstrong Chanler, heir to the Astor fortune, and Am?lie Rives, goddaughter of Robert E. Lee, discussing how the couple scandalized society during the Gilded Age with her morphine addiction and daring novels of female passion, and his eccentric behaviors and profligacy, which led to his being placed by his siblings in an insane asylum from which he escaped after four years.

Collection of previously unpublished poems by American poet Carl Sandburg, rejected at the time of their writing for their raw language, bold attitude, and daring politics, expressing the author's views on a variety of topics including a swindling evangelist, the folly of war, and wife abuse.