An Intimate View of Robert G. Ingersoll: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

An Intimate View of Robert G. Ingersoll, credited to I. Newton Baker, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of An Intimate View of Robert G. Ingersoll by I. Newton Baker. Read in English by Michele Fry Written as a tribute to Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll after his death, by Isaac Newton Baker, his secretary of 14 years, and presented to the Ingersoll family. Later expanded and published by the family so the world could learn more about the public and private life, personality, work, thoughts and ideals of the most famous orator of the late 1800's, also dubbed "The Greatest Agnostic Of the Century". Summary by Michele Fry

Recording facts

• Recording title: An Intimate View of Robert G. Ingersoll
• Author credits: I. Newton Baker
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 12
• Listed recording duration: 4:29:13

Catalogue topics

• culture
• memoirs
• freethought
• biographies
• heritage
• agnosticism

Track guide

1. 01 - Chapter 1, An Intimate View — 6:25
2. 02 - Chapter 2, As A Lawyer — 16:19
3. 03 - Chapter 3, In His Office — 9:58
4. 04 - Chapter 4, As Orator and Writer (and Ebon's Eulogy) — 20:39
5. 05 - Chapter 5, His Method In Composition — 43:58
6. 06 - Chapter 6, Liberty — 25:36
7. 07 - Chapter 7, Part I, The Dresden Edition, Optimism vs Pessimism, Intellectual Intimates, Philanthropy, Smoking, Mistakes and Slanders — 20:06
8. 08 - Chapter 7, Part II, Abuse vs. Argument, Obscene Literature, Agnosticism, Immortality, God, Religion, My Bible — 35:05
9. 09 - Chapter 8, On Eternal Punishment, True Consolation, Providence, Miracles, Nature and Man, Iconoclasm — 26:24
10. 10 - Chapters 9 and 10, His View of Christ, His Creed: Declaration of The Free — 28:44
11. 11 - Chapter 11, His Personality — 22:22
12. 12 - Chapter 12, His Last Illness and Death — 13:36

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